An unfair way which some men take with themselves: who, because of the inconceivableness of something they find in one, throw themselves violently into the contrary hypothesis, though altogether as unintelligible to an unbiassed understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [God, Aids & Circumcision] Reference

By inconceivableness is sometimes meant, inability to form or get rid of an.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

The inconceivableness of a supposition is the extreme case of its unbelievability.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

But he differs from me “widely as to the worth of the test of inconceivableness.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

But secondly, inconceivableness is still further from being a test even of that test.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

In this wide range of cases subjective inconceivableness must correspond to objective impossibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

The inconceivableness, instead of representing their experience, dominated and overrode their experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

Captain Mitchell, the suddenness, unexpectedness, and general inconceivableness of this experience had confused his thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard] Reference

As to Captain Mitchell, the suddenness, unexpectedness, and general inconceivableness of this experience had confused his thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard] Reference

This argumentation is fallacious, since it confounds incomprehensibility with inconceivableness, superiority to reason with contradiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

The evidence of this axiom I shall not consider at present; (92) let us suppose it (with Mr. Spencer) to be the inconceivableness of its reverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

The belief therefore is not invariable; and the test of inconceivableness fails in the only cases to which there could ever be any occasion to apply it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

Will it really be contended that the inconceivableness of the thing, in such circumstances, proves anything against the experimental origin of the conviction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

Will it really be contended that the inconceivableness of the thing, in such circumstances, proves any thing against the experimental origin of the conviction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

Extension, Figure, are not modes of our consciousness, but objective realities; are regarded by Mr. Spencer as truths known by the inconceivableness of their negatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

Next: Even if it were true that inconceivableness represents the net result of all past experience, why should we stop at the representative when we can get at the thing represented?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

Or, if there be any, they are beyond our reach -- we cannot fathom them; therefore, qua us, they have no existence, for there is no other "is not" than inconceivableness by ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference

Objective facts are ever impressing themselves upon us; our experience is a register of these objective facts; and the inconceivableness of a thing implies that it is wholly at variance with the register.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

This double meaning of inconceivable it is very important to bear in mind, for the argument from inconceivableness almost always turns on the alternate substitution of each of those meanings for the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

The doctrine, that “a belief which is proved by the inconceivableness of its negation to invariably exist, is true,” Mr. Spencer enforces by two arguments, one of which may be distinguished as positive, and the other as negative.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

If our incapacity to conceive the negation of a given supposition is proof of its truth, because proving that our experience has hitherto been uniform in its favor, the real evidence for the supposition is not the inconceivableness, but the uniformity of experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

After so complete an admission that inconceivableness is an accidental thing, not inherent in the phenomenon itself, but dependent on the mental history of the person who tries to conceive it, how can he ever call upon us to reject a proposition as impossible on no other ground than its inconceivableness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

He must love space for us, though it be needless for himself; seeing that in all the magnificent notions of creation afforded us by astronomers, -- shoal upon shoal of suns, each the centre of complicated and infinitely varied systems, -- the spaces between are yet more overwhelming in their vast inconceivableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar's Daughter] Reference

To gain the strongest conviction possible respecting any complex fact, we either analytically descend from it by successive steps, each of which we unconsciously test by the inconceivableness of its negation, until we reach some axiom or truth which we have similarly tested; or we synthetically ascend from such axiom or truth by such steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

Now I cannot but wonder that so much stress should be laid on the circumstance of inconceivableness, when there is such ample experience to show, that our capacity or incapacity of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is in truth very much an affair of accident, and depends on the past history and habits of our own minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

Now I can not but wonder that so much stress should be laid on the circumstance of inconceivableness, when there is such ample experience to show, that our capacity or incapacity of conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is in truth very much an affair of accident, and depends on the past history and habits of our own minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

"Now, I cannot but wonder that so much stress should be laid upon the circumstance of inconceivableness, when there is such ample experience to show that our capacity or incapacity for conceiving a thing has very little to do with the possibility of the thing in itself; but is in truth very much an affair of accident, and depends upon the past habits and history of our own minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

If such failure vitiates “the test of inconceivableness,” it “must similarly vitiate all tests whatever.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

The invariability of belief, tested by the inconceivableness of its negation, “is our sole warrant for every demonstration.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

An unfair way which some men take with themselves, who, because of the inconceivableness of something they find in one, throw themselves violently into the contrary hypothesis, though altogether as unintelligible to an unbiassed understanding. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Candid Examination of Theism] Reference

In nearly all cases this test of inconceivableness must be valid now” (I wish I could think we were so nearly arrived at omniscience); “and where it is not, it still expresses the net result of our experience up to the present time; which is the most that any test can do.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

IL The inconceivableness of his nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague] Reference

"antecedent convictions" only: namely, "the inconceivableness of imagined interruptions of natural Order, or supposed suspensions of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."] Reference

86) And he explains that the inconceivableness which, according to his theory, is the test of axioms, “depends entirely upon the clearness of the Ideas which the axioms involve.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference