It is only by thus visualizing the activity of the atoms in a solution that we are able to provide even a thinkable hypothesis as to the development of electricity in the voltaic cell.
An object exalted above the individuality of things is the essence of things; yes, the essence is alone the thinkable in them, it is for the thinking man.
Aside from this, how is an "unlimited freedom" to be thinkable inside of the State or society?
The State is not thinkable without lordship and servitude (subjection); for the State must will to be the lord of all that it embraces, and this will is called the "will of the State.
It is quite thinkable that an ultimate particle may never have had a beginning and never will have an end; no less so is it that such a particle may be possessed of personality, for it is finite.
I am at a loss to conceive how it becomes one atom more thinkable if communicated by a revelation.
Is it thinkable that the Jew would be less objectionable to his surroundings were he to lose his sturdy horror of intemperance, and thus "assimilate" more freely with his neighbors of different faiths?
It is not thinkable when we consider the great efforts made by Christians everywhere to redeem their people from their bondage to strong drink and the misery resulting from it.
This suggests at any rate, very well, the meaning of philosophical anti-intellectualism, which implies the conviction contradictory to intellectualism, to wit that the parts of reality are not connected in thinkable ways.
The discreteness of parts of space is thinkable only by the intervening spaces: space is as continuous (as “compenetrative”) as time.
Its significance, to be sure, is sharply defined by its negative relation to intellectualism, and therefore I stated it negatively above as the thesis that the parts of reality are not connected in a thinkable way.
But the intuitionist would readily admit: if not in a thinkable way, then in no way, evidently.
The continuance of an individual's Karma, conceived as the effects of a man's character upon individuals whom he influences, is a perfectly thinkable process, and a generally accepted fact.
It might, however, be made faintly thinkable by including available births in other solar systems, and by allowing for a certain number of Karmas coming to an end by the attainment of Nirvana.
If it is said that the latter hypothesis has the merit of causing the mystery of material existence and the mystery of mental existence to be united in a thinkable manner--viz.
A thinkable proposition is one of which the two terms can be brought together in consciousness under the relation said to exist between them.
Forces, on the other hand, are the imperceivable relations of dependence which we must presuppose between events that follow one another uniformly, if the uniformity of this sequence is to become for us either thinkable or conceivable.
Long ago the old master of thinking, Aristotle, recognized this fact clearly, when he said that order in the world without a principle of order could be as little thinkable as the order of an army without a commanding general.
If Science can furnish a companion phenomenon from an every-day process of the natural life, it may at least throw this most mystical doctrine of Christianity into thinkable form.
Wherever the fishes came from it does not seem thinkable that some could have fallen and that others could have whirled even a tenth of a minute, then falling directly after the first to fall.
What, however, forms the thinkable universe of these little ants running to and fro so eagerly at my feet?
The information which it gets through its eye, coupled with other ideas derived from touch, smell, and taste, no doubt makes up the main thinkable and knowable universe as it reveals itself to the apian intelligence.
Gradually he grows more capable of imagining a world in which every good thing thinkable may be a fact.
Perhaps we shall come to see that it owes what being it has, to man, that it is a thingthinkable only by man.
No function of money is thinkablewhich does not rest on its objective exchange value.
But I submit that the extreme case of the commodity theory, in the illustration I have given, is a thinkable and consistent system.
It is quite thinkable that such coins should, even when redeemable, circulate at an agio over the redemption money.
What we should to-day regard as a fair complement of capital for a thousand men would nearly glut the wants of a hundred, and yet it is thinkable that it should take such forms that they would be able to use it.
This thinkablepossibility is not practically important.
As it is not possible for any thing that is thinkable to exist any where except in the thinking mind, so it is impossible for this thinkable world to exist any other place beside the divine mind.
Thus there being no causality of the mind, there cannot be its causations of the thinkable world also.
Therefore the intellect only is the cause of thought, and neither the mind nor the thinkable world (which produces or impresses the thought).
The gloss says that, "the intellect whereby the mind thinks, is not the mind nor its dependant or the objective thinkable world; but it is the pure subjective self-same intellect only.
Without this aversion life in a great city, which daily brings each into contact with countless others, would have no thinkable form.
Therefore the real, in order to be thinkable for us, must be the realized thought of the creative thinking of an eternal divine Reason which is presented to our cognitive thinking.
And yet two years previously this same principle, after having been thinkable for many years, had become "unthinkable.
We know that multiplicity in general is necessarily conditioned by space and time, and is only thinkable in them.
His right figure was that of life in irreflective joy and at the highest thinkable level of prepared security and unconscious insolence.
May it not be that the very condition which makes our eternal union with God thinkable destroys our longing?
And the other life is not, in fact, thinkable to us except under the same forms as those of this earthly and transitory life.
Of course, Napoleon was badly chagrined, and so would the King of England have been, if it were thinkable that such a calamity could possibly have befallen any British fleet.
Does a thinkable relation cease to exist, because one of the terms is immeasurable to us?
This to us immeasurable and indescribable extent of space or time becomes a thinkable idea, because we are all the while thinking of space or time, whether it is a measurable portion of either, or an immeasurable and endless existence.
In other words, we reason from what we see and can measure and describe, to that which we can not see or describe, and we end in a term of the relation which can not be present to the mind, and thus no thinkable relation can be framed.
But from human character we derive the idea of goodness or virtue as a thinkable idea.
In this case, does all thinkablerelation lapse, or fade into an impossible conception, when we undertake to conceive of that which lies beyond what we see?
I will not again repeat that extension or magnitude having no known limits is a thinkable term, because the subject of thought is the quality of extension or magnitude; quantity not being essential to the idea of extension or magnitude.
Clearly in this case the relation does not simply cease to be thinkable except as a relation of a certain class, but it lapses completely.
