What's the difference between cogitable and thinkable?
Cogitable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being brought before the mind as a thought or idea; conceivable; thinkable.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can only imagine the internal cogitations about Australian politics in other capitals: who is this one, will he last, is he worth my time, what on earth is going on down there?
(2) He sounded much like Loyd Grossman, whom older readers may recall used to present the original Masterchef programme, and who invariably preceded the judges' result by saying, "We have digested, cogitated and deliberated."
(3) The Oscar commenteriat are nearing the end of their five-month marathon of prognosis and pre-cogitation.
(4) They were afraid to smile.” As well as David Hasselhoff cogitating next to memorials, David Hasselhoff looking horrified by a Trabant and David Hasselhoff walking through computer-generated death zones, David Hasselhoff also introduces East German refugees who, it could be argued, versus-ed the Wall in even bigger ways than him.
(5) Piecing together the odds is a question of informed guesswork, since the nominations and cogitations of the members of the Nobel Committee for Literature are kept under wraps by the Swedish Academy, which only reveals the conversations of the judicial huddle 50 years after the decision is made.
Thinkable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it would be also thinkable that it is an accidental combination of diseases, the number of which increases at growing age.
(2) These ultrastructural findings might be interpreted to the effect that an angioblastically determined mesenchymal cell, a so-called endothelioblast, was thinkable and was discussed as the precursor cell of atypical vascular and spindle cell proliferation in Kaposi's sarcoma.
(3) Casting is the most delicate, secret part of movie production: once a decision has been made, it is in everyone's interests to pretend that this was destiny, and no other actor would be thinkable.
(4) A further focal point of the international development are systems for the replacement of functions and organs, in which case new biomaterials considerably enlarge the volume of thinkable implantable solutions.
(5) Possibly only patients with cellular immunologic defects are susceptible of a favourable response, moreover it is thinkable that the quality of Transfer Factor and the dosage administered must play a role.
(6) Indeed, her indictment of Eichmann reached beyond the man to the historical world in which true thinking was vanishing and, as a result, crimes against humanity became increasingly "thinkable".
(7) According to German media reports, such drastic action had previously only been thinkable when dealing with "pariah states like North Korea or Iran".
(8) It is thinkable that this behaviour is related to the different roles of the determined parameters in fat and energy metabolism.
(9) The idea of restoring it struck Limon while he was doing his PhD thesis in the late 70s, but it wasn't until the fall of communism that the idea of digging for the old theatre – and raising a new one – became thinkable.
(10) "It was not even thinkable that the pope would come to an Island like this one," resident Andrea Pavia, who came out with his tearful wife and daughter to watch the pope drive by, told the Associated Press.
(11) Normally so competent in policing the borders of the sayable and the thinkable, the process is largely accepted as a realistic containment of "common sense" within "acceptable" limits.
(12) When the UK is leaving the European Union it is not thinkable that at the end the whole euro business is managed in London.
(13) A third thinkable pair with no optical activity, but different sum concentrations in both cells, does not exist in this special circuitry, but can be obtained in a slightly changed arrangement.
(14) Only by thinking the unthinkable can we define what's thinkable.
(15) They are helping ensure that previously unthinkable conversations become thinkable.
(16) We have carried out the first study in Italy on the cognitive remediation by a new computerized system developed by IBM and called THINKable.
(17) With the development of the concept of retinal correspondence and the fusion of the retinal images in the brain (Huygens 1667, Newton 1704) a cerebral mechanism of disparity detection became thinkable.