(a.) Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be faced with not being able to stay with or even be near their baby is inconceivable."
(2) If these workers inhaled a carcinogenic substance partly excreted in the urine, an increased incidence of respiratory and bladder cancers would not be inconceivable.
(3) It is not necessarily inconceivable for the issue to be back on the table at some later stage and even to win some form of Commons backing.
(4) It was "inconceivable" that one rotten apple was at the heart of it all.
(5) Since IAPP is co-secreted with insulin, it is not inconceivable, that in the freely fed mouse, IAPP may act to amplify the blood glucose lowering effect of insulin through a direct suppression of glucagon secretion via the islet microcirculation.
(6) The ministry of labour told Human Rights Watch in 2012 that it was "inconceivable" that forced labour existed in Qatar, despite compelling evidence to the contrary.
(7) With regard to drugs, intensive care medicine confronts the surgeon with an inconceivable complex of interactions, side effects and dose adaptations.
(8) Listening to Fleet Foxes, it seemed inconceivable that anyone had ever mocked the acoustic and the bucolic.
(9) "I think it would now be inconceivable for the government to back down after promising so much only a couple of months ago."
(10) According to the diagnosis of preoedipal disturbances it should be worked out, that the test-results are not inconceivable formality and uncomprehension.
(11) 2008: Lord Bruce-Lockhart, chair of English Heritage, says "it is inconceivable that the inadequacies of the site should be allowed to continue any longer".
(12) The Labour leader has a catalogue of reasons why he thinks it inconceivable that the Tories will turn out to be the largest party in 2015, including organisation, psephology, his principles and the fact that he believes the country's values are social democratic.
(13) "It is inconceivable how, from $100m of revenue that just changes classification, you could possibly have a writedown as big as $5bn," Lynch said.
(14) It is inconceivable that parliament would have agreed to deprive the Chagossians of this fundamental birthright."
(15) Israel insists Hamas must disarm, which officials from the Palestinian group said on Thursday was "inconceivable".
(16) The Lib Dems have swallowed just about every dose of Tory poison – swingeing cuts, the VAT hike, trebling tuition fees, privatising the NHS, and so on – so it wasn't inconceivable they'd back this too.
(17) My more rough-and-ready, high-energy stuff would have been totally inconceivable for The Piano , so Jane forced me to do other things.
(18) Although the models are hypothetic, they do not contain biochemically inconceivable steps.
(19) England will be favourites, we play them last so we do think we will have a good chance of getting out of the group.” For Northern Ireland – drawn with world champions Germany, Ukraine and Poland – progress will also be tough but not inconceivable.
(20) He told reporters it was "inconceivable" that the UN would remain silent while the situation in Syria worsened, and it was " a question of days, maybe hours " before the council voted on the draft resolution.
Knowable
Definition:
(a.) That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus the Laplacian ideal of universal laws relating knowable causes to predictable effects cannot be realized in psychology.
(2) Why,” the anthropologist asked a wise woman of the tribe, “why are all your songs so short?” And the wise woman replied: “Our songs are all so short because we know so much.” In other words, the experience of living as a single people in a single place, where each new generation follows the same old paths – such an experience produced a wonderful, enviable confidence about the reliability and the knowability of the world.
(3) The poor child in the very next bed with the same condition as my son had gone into complete liver and kidney failure There are more and more ways in which we are as knowable as ice cubes.
(4) What is this child's long-term prognosis, to the extent that this is knowable?
(5) What is knowable concerning the lived experience and the psychopathology of patients during the border state between coma and waking?
(6) The actual statistical structure of affinity landscapes, although knowable, is currently unknown.
(7) It is suggested nevertheless that information on the midrange, knowable, part of the dose-effect curve may prove useful in predicting safe levels for man.
(8) The first tenet of positivism is that the world is made up of "out there" objectively knowable "facts".
(9) In the end, some questions have been raised and some organizational suggestions have been proposed, in order to guarantee the constancy and validity of the survey and above all the knowable acceptance of the insiders.
(10) The end-product in constitutional terms is not yet known or knowable.
(11) Light flash transient visual evoked response (VER) testing is often a part of the perioperative evaluation of eyes with opaque media, and pupillary size in these patients may not be knowable or may be inadvisable to alter.
(12) We know that there are no meaningful or even at this point knowable ways for determining who’s on a watchlist or should be, and connecting that to gun purchases is only doubling down on a problematic situation to begin with,” said Warren, whose organization also represents people challenging their apparent watchlisting.
(13) The suitability of an AI tool is determined by the knowable facts of the pathology subfield, by the match with its knowledge structure and by its requirements.
(14) But the nature of the problems to be solved or the values to be guarded by a patient in psychotherapy are not knowable independently of the patient's actual behavior.