inconceivableness

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.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

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.

God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

The pious man, therefore, does not find the essential characteristic of miracles in their relative inconceivableness, but in the fact that they refer him to a living God who stands above this process, whether perceived or unperceived in its relative causal connection, and unites it with the course of things in order to reach his ends and to manifest himself to man.

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

We have by no means the wish to avoid _difficulties_ which meet us, when trying to bring miracles, and especially the specific and pregnant miracles of the history of salvation, into harmony with our scientific knowledge of the world: only we can no longer admit that these difficulties consist in the inconceivableness or in the supernaturalism of miracles.

The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

This argumentation is fallacious, since it confounds incomprehensibility with inconceivableness, superiority to reason with contradiction.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Captain Mitchell, the suddenness, unexpectedness, and general inconceivableness of this experience had confused his thoughts.

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

As to Captain Mitchell, the suddenness, unexpectedness, and general inconceivableness of this experience had confused his thoughts.

Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890

The utter unexpectedness, improbability, and inconceivableness of such an event robbed this vague declaration of all its effect.

The Secret Agent; a Simple Tale Joseph Conrad 1890

All her later writings, at least, confirm this testimony to her assertion of the inconceivableness of God, and her open denial of faith in theism.

George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

All her later writings, at least, confirm this testimony to her assertion of the inconceivableness of God, and her open denial of faith in theism.

George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884