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Definition of Thinkableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thinkableness
Literary usage of Thinkableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development of Christianity by Otto Pfleiderer (1910)
"to make of it a logical, connected, formal doctrinal unit, whereby philosophic
dialectics were used as an instrument in order to make the thinkableness of ..."
2. The Development of Taste, and Other Studies in Aesthetics by W. Proudfoot Begg (1887)
"... but even the whole significance of its conception would vanish, so the
thinkableness of the ugly is necessary for the thinkableness of the beautiful. ..."
3. The Development of Taste, and Other Studies in Aesthetics by W. Proudfoot Begg (1887)
"... the possibility of wrong not only the joy in the right, but even the whole
significance of its conception would vanish, so the thinkableness of the ugly ..."
4. The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner, Steven Tracy Byington (1913)
"Well, then, possibility is nothing but thinkableness, and innumerable sacrifices
have hitherto been made to hideous thinkableness. It was thinkable that men ..."
5. Fragments in Philosophy and Science: Being Collected Essays and Addresses by James Mark Baldwin (1902)
"As metaphysics is the science of the thinkableness of experience in general, so
psychology is the science of the ..."
6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1899)
"Truth makes existence thinkable, but thinkableness alone is not as yet a test of
truth. The ultimate test of truth is its practical application. ..."
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