Sentence examples for it cannot be conceived from inspiring English sources

In the first place, while essence can be conceived independently of its existence in the physical world, it cannot be conceived independently of its being-essence, otherwise it would be a mere figment.

"London is a labyrinth," Mr. Ackroyd writes, "half of stone and half of flesh," adding, "It cannot be conceived in its entirety but can be experienced only as a wilderness of alleys and passages, courts and thoroughfares".

Unlike demonstration, it cannot be conceived in an impersonal manner.

Nowadays, in the age of computer it cannot be conceived without the help of a computer [1].

Similarly (on this interpretation), when I try to doubt God's existence, or omnipotence, or benevolence — or any other attribute contained in the very conception of an all-perfect being — I immediately apprehend, as Descartes writes, that any such sceptical conception of God "implies a conceptual contradiction — that is, it cannot be conceived" (1643 letter to Voetius, AT 8b:60).

This contains the notion of a being that cannot be conceived not to exist.

But the body's properties, such as its weight and its colour and its shape, are qualities that cannot be conceived to exist in isolation: they must be the weight, colour and shape of a certain body.

Each wave has its own shape that it holds for a certain time, but the wave is not separate from the sea and cannot be conceived to exist independently of it.

Matter, with its properties of extension, impenetrability, etc., cannot be conceived as producing thought.

Henry Sidgwick correctly expressed this objection: "It is said … by Mr. Green that 'pleasure as feeling, in distinction from its conditions which are not feelings, cannot be conceived'; and, therefore, of course, cannot be taken as an end of rational action" (Hedonism and the Ultimate Good, p.36).

Therefore, if a being a greater than which cannot be conceived, can even be conceived, it must exist.Hartshorne says that, for Anselm, "necessary existence is a superior manner of existence to ordinary, contingent existence and that ordinary, contingent existence is a defect".