| 单词 | thinkable |
| 例句 | We have offended all the oldest divinities, in every thinkable way. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was thinkable that the razor blade might arrive concealed in his food, if he were ever fed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They had made the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible really happen. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For him, reality is always mediated by cognition, and the thinkable has a basic handicap: it is just thought. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z “The idea that she would install something and kind of walk away and have people just dust it is not thinkable really,” she says. A Laurie Anderson pilgrimage? Just don’t tell her you’re calling it that. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Aren't new realities created by first imagining them, making what is possible in art thinkable in life? Palestine: Diary of a historic month 2012-12-14T10:00:02Z Before Reagan, such scabrous movie treatments of incumbent presidents were scarcely thinkable. Rom-coms, hatchet jobs and Hot Shots: how movies bid presidents goodbye 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z However, unlike the world of 1949, so dramatically described by Peraino in his timely book, our current globalized world renders separation not even thinkable. 1949: The Year That Set the Course of Chinese-American Relations 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z I therefore did my best to make sure that no compromise or kiss-and-make-up was thinkable. ArtsBeat: Hitchens on the Art of the Feud 2011-06-10T12:30:04Z And they worry that even if Trump fails, what “was once considered unthinkable in American politics is becoming thinkable.” How Endangered Is American Democracy? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z 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. Back to the Future: the way it could have been 2010-10-13T19:00:00Z By the time construction began in 2019, the formerly unthinkable notion of shrinking the auditorium had become thinkable. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z It’s a form of emergency preparedness for the mind, rendering thinkable the unthinkable and theorizing where the average person’s place in all of it might be. Exposure therapy: why we're obsessed with watching virus movies 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Likewise with inventions: the printing press was only possible – and perhaps only thinkable – once moveable type, paper and ink all existed. Steven Johnson: 'Eureka moments are very, very rare' 2010-10-19T19:30:00Z It is thinkable that the story might have ended in this damp-squib way, but two later developments were to give the novel its place in history. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z This isn't so much a play as a theatrical séance, a meditation on the meaning of her life through modern considerations of gender and race scarcely thinkable in Shakespeare's time. Toni Morrison's ghostly 'Desdemona' blends words and music in lyrical revision of Shakespeare 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Whether or not Ethiopia actually launches an invasion, Mr Abiy has made the war thinkable. Ethiopia PM Abiy eyes Red Sea port, inflaming tensions 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z “It wouldn’t have been thinkable to have a 5 percent interest rate before the pandemic,” Jerome H. Powell, the Fed’s chair, said on Thursday. Wall St. Foresees a Rosy 6 Months. Corporate America Isn’t So Sure. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z “It wouldn’t have been thinkable to have a 5 percent interest rate before the pandemic,” he later added. Fed Chair Says He Expects Slower Rate Increases to Continue 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The once unthinkable is now thinkable, such as formally annexing large sections of the West Bank, including "Area C," where up to 300,000 Palestinians live. In Israel, Netanyahu's extremist new government rips off the mask 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z The demonstrations have, at times, boldly called for China to return to the path of liberalization that seemed at least thinkable, even openly discussable, under Jiang’s rule. Your Thursday Briefing: Jiang Zemin Dies 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The demonstrations have at times also boldly called for China to return to the path of political liberalization that seemed at least thinkable, even openly discussable, under Mr. Jiang during the 1990s. For China’s Leader, Another Dilemma: How to Mourn Jiang Zemin 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z We are two professional philosophers who have been trained to advocate the destructive worldview that has made world-wrecking practices not only thinkable, but normal, necessary, the way things have to be. Did Western philosophy ruin Earth? A philosopher's letter of apology to the world 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z As Russian forces suffer a weeks-long string of defeats, the prospect of Ukrainian victory is becoming thinkable without the United States having ever sent its army to the battlefield or air force to the skies. Opinion | Biden’s instincts to avoid war are sound — even if Putin goes nuclear 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “Let’s make sure that families are moving to a place where abortion is not even thinkable.” In the wake of Dobbs, antiabortion religious leaders vow to support women 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Still, improved alternative energy sources and construction techniques are making off-grid living more thinkable for more people, including those who don’t want to haul buckets of water from a well or live by candlelight. Off-grid living beckons more than just hardy pioneer types 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Japan nuclear authority chairman Toyoshi Fuketa said that the plan is made conservatively so the radiation impact on the environment could be still below the legal limit in case of any thinkable risks. Japan OKs plan to release Fukushima nuclear plant wastewater 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The reduced blast capability made breaking the nuclear taboo “more thinkable,” Gen. James E. Cartwright, a vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Obama, warned at the time. The Smaller Bombs That Could Turn Ukraine Into a Nuclear War Zone 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z By making nuclear weapons smaller and the targeting more precise, their use becomes more thinkable. ‘Limited’ Tactical Nuclear Weapons Would Be Catastrophic 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z “Had I been in office, not even thinkable,” Mr. Trump said. Rep. Liz Cheney accuses Trump aiding U.S. enemies by calling Putin savvy 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The polling points to some fundamental views, he said: “that war in Europe is thinkable once again, that the E.U. should respond to Russian aggression.” After 30 Years of Peace, Ukraine Crisis Shakes Europeans 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Lord Marland, a former Conservative party treasurer and Johnson ally, said MPs should "be careful what they wish for because the alternative is probably not thinkable". Downing Street party: Johnson to face MPs as Tories discuss his future 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Today, both Russia and the United States have nuclear arms that are much less destructive — their power just fractions of the Hiroshima bomb’s force, their use perhaps less frightening and more thinkable. The Smaller Bombs That Could Turn Ukraine Into a Nuclear War Zone 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z “What used to be three months ago unthinkable has to become thinkable now.” Exclusive-U.N. warns of 'colossal' collapse of Afghan banking system 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z You can understand a revolution as a time when the unthinkable becomes, suddenly, thinkable. Opinion | Trump Had a Mob. He Also Had a Plan. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Biles, though, took things to a new level — one that now makes it thinkable to do what had been almost unthinkable only 24 hours before. `OK not to be OK’: Mental health takes top role at Olympics 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Focusing on the skirmishes allows the left to move the goalposts so that one day, what was once unthinkable becomes first, thinkable, then reality. Biden administration moves the goalposts on COVID-19, endangering Americans’ liberty 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Those gains at UW Station made it thinkable to take over the downtown tunnel early, said Sound Transit facilities director Robert Taft. Sound Transit’s race to fix dozens of broken escalators in downtown Seattle 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Once unthinkable, such a scenario is at least now thinkable but remains unlikely. Fears mount that Trump’s final 13 days in office pose a security threat 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z In the Trump administration, it is all too thinkable — despite the trauma it imposes on children. Opinion | Undeterred by the last uproar, Trump is again considering family separation 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z What he failed to do, and even seemed to dread attempting, was to eradicate the prejudice and tribalism that made slavery thinkable in the first place. Opinion | What Lincoln’s life teaches us about monuments 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z “In my personal opinion, I think that the bilateral relations and dialogue for them would be thinkable only when the equilibrium is kept dynamically and morally and justice ensured between the two countries,” she continued. Trump offered Kim Jong Un coronavirus help in personal letter, North Korea says 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z “In my personal opinion, I think that the bilateral relations and dialogue for them would be thinkable only when the equilibrium is kept dynamically and morally and justice ensured between the two countries,” she said. N Korea says Trump sent letter to Kim, offers cooperation 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z But it is not only thinkable, it is done publicly and thus far, apparently, with impunity. Hey, college bozos, sexual harassment of goalie will not stand 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z But the fact that they’re thinkable at all is a measure of how disruptive impeachment can be. Opinion | How impeachment will upend the Democratic primary 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z “But hierarchy and rules are so embedded that direct political or social dissonance is simply not thinkable.” A Very German Idea of Freedom: Nude Ping-Pong, Nude Sledding, Nude Just About Anything 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z After experiencing, or even nearly experiencing, a technologically related shock you might find yourself unable to process it mentally – it all happened too fast, too hard, too unnaturally to be thinkable. How the climate emergency could lead to a mental health crisis | Anouchka Grose 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z It was a long shot, but still thinkable, when he took the course just before noon on yet another cloudy, calm day on the Monterey Peninsula. ‘Awful start’ keeps Tiger in also-ran position at US Open 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z “The idea that I can’t adjust to the fact that personal space is important — more important than it’s ever been — is just not thinkable.” Joe Biden, in Video, Says He Will Be ‘More Mindful’ of Personal Space 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “The idea that I can’t adjust to the fact that personal space is important, more important than it’s ever been, is just not thinkable,” he said in closing. Biden: I’ll be more mindful of respecting personal space 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Unthinkable for centuries, in the past decade it became not only thinkable but also normative and, consequently, legal in all 50 states. Opinion | The Supreme Court’s Peace Cross case highlights a deeper question about religion 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The older scandals tied to sexual behavior are minor next to the extraordinary, but now thinkable, possibility that a president has been working for a foreign adversary. Has Trump boredom set in? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z None of the orchestra’s unrelenting ambition, 50-plus commissions and radical projects would be thinkable without musicians who go way beyond common professionalism in their dedication, versatility and willingness. Best in classical 2018: The musicians who spread joy, justice and compassion when the world needed it 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “There, providers may be required to open up their infrastructure to other providers. Price controls would also be thinkable.” German regulator may require cable operators to open networks to... 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z “For me, it’s about opening new ways of thinking and acting, making the unthinkable thinkable and the unspeakable speakable.” Mai Khoi’s dissenting voice 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Because the world of Offred, though still notionally a fiction, has migrated from creative construct to the realm of the thinkable. The Handmaid’s Tale held a mirror up to a year of Trump | Matthew d’Ancona 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z “This week in Washington DC, the thinkable happened,” began Stephen Colbert. Late-night TV: 'Republicans have 10 days to overhaul healthcare – or everybody lives!' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Are you worried defense plans might make nuclear war more “thinkable”? Nuclear Expert Considers Risks of Conflict with North Korea 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Paul Mason recently wrote about the horrible way nuclear war has once again become “thinkable”. One way to avert nuclear war – show Trump the horror, as told by the BBC | Peter Bradshaw 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z I don’t wish to alarm you, but right now the majority of the world’s nuclear warheads are in the hands of men for whom the idea of using them is becoming thinkable. Nuclear war has become thinkable again – we need a reminder of what it means 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z “But it’s becoming more and more thinkable with North Korea because people are frustrated with the lack of options,” Jackson said. With both the U.S. and North Korea saber rattling, is conflict imminent? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women’s lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable. Dystopian dreams: how feminist science fiction predicted the future 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z As for whether I think this makes nuclear war more thinkable — I don’t think there’s much evidence of that actually being a real sentiment. Nuclear Expert Considers Risks of Conflict with North Korea 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z “It was the rational world of modern civilization that made the Holocaust thinkable,” Dr. Bauman wrote. Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist who wrote identity in the modern world, dies at 91 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Instead of offering conventional predictions, I’m going to offer up some Black Swans — things that were considered unthinkable but may now be thinkable, in a blue-sky, the-world-is-upside-down kind of way. With Trump, an Economic Feast With Surprises on the Menu 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z The logician Augustus de Morgan wrote in 1859 “All that is thinkable is possible; all that is impossible is unthinkable: that is, so far as our knowledge can go.” History: Untangling Alice : Nature : Nature Research 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The more his strange behavior continues, the more thinkable the unthinkable becomes. 7 Key Lessons From the Final Debate 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “Nothing that you see would be thinkable without nature but in everything you see, there is politics because there’s political strategies that impact you subconsciously,” Struth tells TIME. How Technology Shape Our Understanding of Reality 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z It addressed and broke almost every taboo thinkable when it was published in a weekly girls' manga magazine. The godmother of manga sex in Japan - BBC News 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z So a Clinton-Trump matchup is not only thinkable at this point. Clinton should prepare to fight dirty against Trump 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The terrifying part, of course, is that for the Islamic State it’s not only thinkable but also an encouraged path to martyrdom. The Islamic State’s unthinkable, inhumane use of children in suicide missions 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z With the help of like-minded parties, that may be thinkable if the LDP does well in both the upper-house election and a snap poll for the lower house. Negative rates, positive polls 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z "What was once thinkable, and then became unthinkable, is again thinkable," Singer said, noting the growth of China's military and Russia's recent land-grab in Ukraine. Ex-NSA Chief Warns of Cyberspace Dangers 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z But, Volkswagen's ability to modify engine-performance to meet either objective, but not both at once suggests that more sophisticated approaches are thinkable. Test Emissions Where Cars Pollute: On the Road 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z All of this is not only thinkable but attainable. Hitler’s world may not be so far away | Timothy Snyder 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z What was unthinkable one year became thinkable, possibly, the next. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Rose in the Hall is thinkable and debatable. Consider Pete Rose for Hall of Fame, but don’t let him back into baseball 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z But it’s entirely thinkable to anyone who began to sense, some years back, that Stewart and company had perfected the form and could advance it no further. It was time for Jon Stewart to wrap up the joke anyway 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z For such things to become thinkable in Mexico, several changes are needed. The Mexican morass 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z No rogue FSB-GRU operation of this magnitude is thinkable in Putin’s so-called power vertical. Was Aeroflot 2074 The Real Target Of The Russian Missile? Who Is "Upstairs"? 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z But the frontiers of the thinkable were quietly, fitfully edging back for me. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z From the Post’s perspective, this was literally thinkable: White rage and white lies: How the right’s language about race created Michael Dunn and George Zimmerman 2014-02-17T12:45:00Z And once such an exit becomes thinkable, it may well become inevitable. Europe Thinks the Unthinkable: Could Debt Default Make Sense? 2013-04-23T08:05:28Z The White House seems to be playing both sides of the street on the question of whether it’s thinkable to go over the cliff. “Fiscal cliff” cruelty 2012-12-10T14:00:00Z A far better bet for the US, barely thinkable during Bush's presidency, is shale gas, which is transforming the US economy. Shale offers freedom and security – but it could be a trap 2012-11-15T19:31:53Z Tumblr - and its rival "curating" platforms - are one clue as to what might, one day, if this is even thinkable, kill Facebook. I meet Tumblr whizz-kid David Karp 2012-11-01T17:05:32Z Personal responsibility is at the heart of the criminal justice system, he will stress, and that means long prison sentences are the only "thinkable" punishment for certain serious offenders. Cameron: We must make prison work 2012-10-22T00:17:49Z Anti-abortion attorney Teresa Collett, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, says her ideal would be "to live in a country where abortion is not even really thinkable." Dozens of states make it hard to get abortions 2012-10-20T17:28:11Z It is much harder then, is it not? to imagine any thinkable and workable connection that our Lord has with that sphere of life, broad and extensive as it is. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z The law of the thinkable is, that the thing thought must be separated from the thing which is not thought. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z With the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, saying that the “smallest thinkable unit” for the tax is the euro zone, it is only a matter of time before the Robin Hood tax is buried. Political Economy: Rethinking the Distortions of Banking 2012-03-25T21:11:02Z For such an eye is a necessary condition of the possibility of knowledge, and the whole world exists only in and for knowledge, and without it is not even thinkable. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z But every sort of false proposition is also thinkable. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Such a being is not even thinkable for the very reason that the whole notion of "unegoistic conduct," when closely examined, vanishes into air. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z I assume here that no other theory is thinkable. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Dearest Edith, Alas it is not possible—it is not even for a moment thinkable. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Besides will and idea nothing is known to us or thinkable. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The conclusions of all inductive inferences have, logically speaking, purely problematic validity, that is, their contradictory opposite remains equally thinkable. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Euro zone officials hope that if Merkel and others find themselves staring into the abyss, the unthinkable will rapidly become thinkable. Greek protests as France, Spain face squeeze 2011-11-18T00:06:00Z If you attempt to remove the limits, that is the organisation, the intelligence ceases to be thinkable. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Is it thinkable to you that you might come over at this ungenial season, for a night—some time before Xmas? The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z But, according to the investigations which have already been conducted in this Fourth Book, such a consummation is not even thinkable. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z There would be no thinkable moral universe, but rather as many worlds as there are individuals, having no more to do with one another than the chemical reactions going on in a set of test-tubes. Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z Every thinkable variety of putting method has been adopted. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z As Mr. Keary puts it, "The god stands out as clear and thinkable in virtue of this name as any living friend can be". Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z It is not requisite that one actually think them; it is sufficient that they be in themselves thinkable. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z We know that multiplicity in general is necessarily conditioned by space and time, and is only thinkable in them. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z It is a rather linear projection into the future although many different futures are thinkable. How Disruptive is SAP HANA? 2011-06-30T13:30:57Z The law of the thinkable is that the thing thought must be separated from the thing which is not thought. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z To financial markets, and to many other observers, it is more than thinkable. High & Low Finance: The Inevitability of a Greek Default 2011-05-05T21:23:18Z For it is the life of the spirit in which everything gathers to find its support and become thinkable. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z And secondly: Is it thinkable, conceivable, intrinsically possible? Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z It seemed a million times too good to be even thinkable. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z Cissie marrying a subaltern with a thousand pounds a year isn't thinkable. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Such comfortableness went too deep, was too much settled, too heavy, to make it thinkable that it should ever really be disturbed. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z For as we have seen, nothing is, properly speaking, thinkable except in relation to the human spirit. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z But a banker familiar with Hochtief's defense strategy said that overturning the bid "was absolutely thinkable and doable." Hedge funds may be Hochtief's saving grace 2011-01-14T15:03:06Z No function of money is thinkable which does not rest on its objective exchange value. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z If Ireland's bailout is botched, the unthinkable will be all too thinkable. Ireland is having a Lehmans moment 2010-11-22T00:04:00Z Understanding how knowledge is built will allow us to create ideas that go beyond the currently thinkable. Does Language Influence Culture? 2010-07-24T02:24:00Z What is more, with tax increases unlikely and with Europe on the brink, the unthinkable — a sovereign debt default or the collapse of the credit system — has suddenly become thinkable. Worried About Their Dollars, More Are Turning to Gold 2010-06-12T16:26:00Z Several coalitions are now thinkable, any one of which would reverberate beyond NRW. North Rhine-Westphalia?s election: Rhine scold 2010-05-10T06:11:00Z But I submit that the extreme case of the commodity theory, in the illustration I have given, is a thinkable and consistent system. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Now restructuring — a polite way of saying “default” — is not only thinkable, but even likely. News Analysis: For Greece, Restructuring Is No Longer Unthinkable 2010-04-25T19:10:00Z Would history be even thinkable without such continuity? The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker This, then, must be the goal of human effort, to bring the nations of the world into such a unity of spirit that war will no longer be thinkable. Victory out of Ruin By unity Boole denoted the universe of thinkable objects; literal symbols, such as x, y, z, v, u, &c., were used with the elective meaning attaching to common adjectives and substantives. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" It is quite thinkable that such coins should, even when redeemable, circulate at an agio over the redemption money. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Moreover, it declares that this God is knowable, which flatly contradicts the brave assertion of modern agnostics that the notion of a God is not even “thinkable.” The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Was it not thinkable that the devilish messes of one or the other had ruined the health of the Prentiss boy? In And Out And suddenly men realised that a kingdom not of this world—an empire without legions—was not only thinkable and possible, but was actually established. Victory out of Ruin Besides, it is entirely thinkable that even a man like Andr� might have to dress for those whose discernment goes no deeper than clothes and ornamentation. Seeds of Pine Besides, whether or not the thing is logically thinkable, it is legally false. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Poems addressed to the moon gave way to hymns to freedom and songs of battle against all kinds of enemies both thinkable and unthinkable. German Moonlight The second conclusion is "the law of the definite number: the accumulation of identical independent objects of an actual species is only thinkable as being made up of a definite number of these individual objects." Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" But a little reflection must convince us that this conception neither makes creation thinkable in any genuine sense nor proves its occurrence. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Yet it is quite thinkable that one might be armed with a quiver full of generalizations, and fail, withal, to comprehend Jacobean witchcraft. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 But it is only as a matter of static theory that it is even thinkable. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z And there was yet more, though I almost despair to make it thinkable by Europeans. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) This last necessity constitutes the real reason why no composite body is thinkable except as made up of atoms. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" We put forward two hypotheses, each of which seemed more thinkable, less in the air, so to speak, than Mr. Wells's scheme of things. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' In fact no other hypothesis seemed to them thinkable. God and the World A Survey of Thought Perhaps the most thinkable of these to persons not specially trained in dealing with abstruse subjects is that of Professor Thompson. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science It is impossible to accomplish it alone; no spiritual exclusiveness is thinkable in this connection, to say nothing of the lower forms of egotism and selfishness. The Prayers of St. Paul By the time church was dismissed the blizzard was on in full force, and the roads were already so filled with the new drifts that to return with the buggy was hardly thinkable. Trail Tales Would she have him believe it thinkable that a spy should swear away a woman's life? The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court Is there a thinkable answer to this question of such a nature that the law of transmission of light in vacuo does not contradict the principle of relativity? Relativity: The Special and General Theory He had taken with himself on leaving Venice the resolution to regard Milly as already dead to him—that being for his spirit the only thinkable way to pass the time of waiting. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II The tartans were doubtless conceivable as different, but the cloaks, curiously, only thinkable as one. The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 The constant result of errors along this line would be to destroy the slow and preserve the swift, and in the course of time it is quite thinkable that only the swift should remain. The Meaning of Evolution Nonentities are not perceivable, and therefore not thinkable. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 7, July, 1880 Without this aversion life in a great city, which daily brings each into contact with countless others, would have no thinkable form. Introduction to the Science of Sociology "And now," she added, on the stairs, "if there were to be serious trouble between Acton and Leslie——Well, it isn't thinkable!" The Beloved Woman We can see how one billiard ball may set another in motion, but it is only thinkable upon the supposition that there was an agent behind the ball which put the second ball in motion. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 The labor of the merchant is not even thinkable without that of the different producers between whom he mediates. Principles Of Political Economy The conditioned, or the thinkable, lies between two extremes or poles; and each of these extremes or poles are unconditioned, each of them inconceivable, each of them exclusive or contradictory of the other. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles "Without aversion life in a great city would have no thinkable form." Introduction to the Science of Sociology No, that's not thinkable," he agreed, slowly; "I am bound hand and foot. The Beloved Woman In fact, every thinkable way of serving fish is herein described. American Cookery November, 1921 No doubt the author of the original has opened to the public several doors through which it is not thinkable that a parodist would care to follow her. Marge Askinforit What they were was not thinkable or acceptable by me. Valley of the Croen I have reached the point where silence is no longer thinkable: there is no going any farther without you. The Goose Man There is no such thing as abstract liberty; it is not even thinkable. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 God being Who and What He is, and we being who and what we are, the only thinkable relation between us is one of full lordship on His part and complete submission on ours. The Pursuit of God It isn’t thinkable that you’ll be able to prevent something from being tried at a time the saboteurs pick. Space Platform Nothing is either known to us or thinkable by us except will and idea. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics God must be found within, then He appears as the "Primal Splendour, who sends out innumerable rays, not perceptible by the senses, but collectively thinkable." Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity But neither can it be the cause of our particular election, for the particular is only possible, and indeed only thinkable, as the result of the general. American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) True, there was no slavery question in the Peloponnesian war, for antique civilization without slavery is hardly thinkable; but after all, the slavery question belongs ultimately to the sphere of economics. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 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? Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil The idea was too hideous to be thinkable. The Root of Evil But it was, down to the last least detail which had made it thinkable for him to defy all his fellow-men to keep faith with four children whose lives and errand he'd interfered with. Long Ago, Far Away Physical Reality thus conceived is consistently thinkable as co-existent with the thing-in-itself—be it ultimately Intelligence or Volition—of which our cognitive and conative existence is a manifestation. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge 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. Natural Law in the Spiritual World 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. The Book of the Damned He could scarcely believe it; indeed, it was scarcely thinkable. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales His right figure was that of life in irreflective joy and at the highest thinkable level of prepared security and unconscious insolence. The Finer Grain Or, as the law says, how can we think on what is not thinkable? A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 For the life of no kind of living soul is thinkable or conceivable apart from the unfathomable duality. The Complex Vision For if God is infinite, then He is all; and if He is all, what becomes of human individuality, or how are human initiative and responsibility so much as thinkable? Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive An order of the priestly and hierarchical type is no longer thinkable to-day, nor can one of the peasant type come into question in a land of urban industry. The New Society For when France passed from theory to practice, the question was put to the world in a way not thinkable in connection with the prefatory experiment of a thin population on a colonial coast. A Short History of England As Kant might have formulated it, Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable. A Short History of Greek Philosophy They are only one and the same thing in the sense that neither is thinkable without the other; and in the sense that they create the universe by their conflict. The Complex Vision He made tacitly the addition that still less than asking Lady Agnes for his convenience to dine early would this be decent, would it be thinkable. The Tragic Muse He watched his smoke and he thought, thought so hard that at last he appeared to himself to have exhausted the thinkable. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) There was no new thing thinkable, only a reintroduction of the old. A Hero and Some Other Folks As if any thinkable sensible snobbish law-abiding Englishman would ever have defied all the drawing-rooms by disdaining the House of Commons! George Bernard Shaw And in it was every thinkable expression of condemnation and contempt. The Forfeit Annihilation, absorption, resurrection, conveyance, recurrence, migration, transition, these seven answers to the question of our fate, and of its relation to the course of nature, are thinkable in words. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Is it not thinkable that they are able to detect, in the gaseous atmosphere, floating particles that are not gaseous? Social Life in the Insect World Thus, the sphere of external sensation and of physical agencies furnishes us with the one type of thinkable thing or object of thought, and we habitually view subjective mental states as analogues of these. Illusions A Psychological Study Yet, to those who indulge in speculative dreaming, how much smaller life would be with a sun and a moon and a blue beyond for the only visible, the only thinkable universe. Certain Personal Matters Was it possible that those writings, born of his mental torture, robbing him of every friend he valued—-was it thinkable that they had been used for gross purposes? The Parts Men Play For the Australians, as for many other savage peoples, the married state is the only thinkable one for the adult, and that being so it is natural for the widow to remarry. Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia When the race dies, in no thinkable way can we say that it will live at all. Is Life Worth Living? And it is thinkable that they might occur again. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe For the eternity of unprogressive events involved in the future on Kant's hypothesis, is not only thinkable, but any change is, as observed, irreconcilable with our ideas of energy. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays That completeness of classification for which the unfolding of the perceptions paves the way, is impossible without a corresponding progress in language, by which greater varieties of objects are thinkable and expressible. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library It is thinkable, but not demonstrable, that condensation might go on till there were no discernible substance left, only force. Among the Forces The existence of a conscious will within the universe is not quite thinkable. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant The dim and distant prospect of parting was thinkable—though perturbing. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Does the essentially material hypothesis of Kant and Laplace account for an infinite past as thinkably as it accounts for the infinite future? The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays 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. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon It is thinkable that the Irish State may give its civil servants Irish-made paper to write on in their offices. The Open Secret of Ireland Theological study had henceforth nothing to do but to avoid extremes and seek to make this image, which reflexion upon two polar opposites had yielded, as nearly thinkable as possible. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant But is an eternal and endless life after death indeed thinkable? Tragic Sense Of Life Mr. Browning ends where he began, with a hope, which is practically a belief, because to his mind the only thinkable approach to it. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Perhaps we shall come to see that it owes what being it has, to man, that it is a thing thinkable only by man. Hope of the Gospel Furthermore, they had been solemnly assured by human persons in whom they had the utmost confidence, that but one sequence of events was permissible or even thinkable in the presence of game. African Camp Fires They may thus make it a thinkable conjecture that the former may be right after all. Five Years of Theosophy And the other life is not, in fact, thinkable to us except under the same forms as those of this earthly and transitory life. Tragic Sense Of Life They only attack the position of those who would retain the belief in a personal God, and yet divest Him of every quality which makes such a Being thinkable. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Gradually he grows more capable of imagining a world in which every good thing thinkable may be a fact. Hope of the Gospel Was it possible, was it thinkable or conceivable, that he was a complaisant invertebrate whom the last strong man that had his ear could play upon like a flute? Queed Scarcely thinkable as it was to dismiss Hugo Canning from her presence, it seemed even more impossible to pack off this nameless intruder. V. V.'s Eyes May it not be that the very condition which makes our eternal union with God thinkable destroys our longing? Tragic Sense Of Life The scene is terrible in its scarcely thinkable distress, but it is not horrible, as some would have it to be. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory They didn't think of them, because this thing wasn't thinkable. The Romantic Now, let us project our thought as far back into duration as we can—count the periods by any thinkable measurements, years, centuries, ages, aeons, anything you please that will help. Dorian Perhaps there was some misunderstanding: this contemptible business hardly seemed thinkable, even of MacQueen. V. V.'s Eyes Commands, demands, appeals, cajoleries, every means thinkable, are used, but the more people attempt to influence my action, the more stubborn I become. Analyzing Character Think or thinkable might be isolated, but as neither un- nor -able nor is-un yields a measurable satisfaction, we are compelled to leave unthinkable as an integral whole, a miniature bit of art. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech If American fiction cannot long escape the village, at least here is a village of a sort hardly thinkable before the revolt began. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Nevertheless the anarchism of Tolstoy offers us a programme which is hardly thinkable. The Church and Modern Life We agree with Mr Mill in the opinion that it is thinkable, conceivable, knowable. Review of the Work of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled, 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy.' Is it thinkable, we ask, that He whose dwelling-place is eternity should care for us even as we care for our children? The Teaching of Jesus She knew what she wanted and it was not thinkable that she should put up with anything less. Mary Wollaston Therefore we must so transform and supplement them that they shall become free from contradictions and thinkable. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Anarchism is no more thinkable or workable in religion than in politics. The Church and Modern Life And there was yet more, though I almost despair to make it thinkable by Europeans. A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa There was none the less for him, in the very manner of his host's allusion to satiety as a thinkable motive, a slight breath of the ominous. The Ambassadors It wasn't thinkable that his financial difficulties could be real. Mary Wollaston G. Cantor, and others, which look on our Euclidean space of three dimensions as a special case of the unintuitable yet thinkable analytic concept of a space of n dimensions. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time In addition, in the U.S., the advent of cheaper long-distance calls and high-speed modems has made long-distance Usenet feeds thinkable for smaller companies. Zen and the Art of the Internet Surrender to Rome was a thinkable position, while he was in a position to bargain. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate He judged the quantity as small because it WAS small, and all the more egregiously since it couldn't, as he saw the case, so much as thinkably have been larger. The Ambassadors As for Max Piccolomini, he is a perfectly thinkable character—in the time of the Thirty Years' War or at any other time. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Knowledge independent of the will is thinkable; will independent of knowledge is unthinkable. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic When a concrete thinkable one fell to him, he was jubilant over the isolate thing, and with his joy value had nothing to do. Home Again The fact was only this—that the idea of a God worth believing in, was coming a little nearer to him, was becoming to him a little more thinkable. There & Back The extinction of all bacteria, though predicated on an unlikely event, is still thinkable. Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema That such a woman should befool Fiesco and rejoice in her triumph is quite thinkable, but her qualities are those which usually go with a certain amount of discretion. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller And as you cannot think of a lost effect, you cannot think of a first cause; it is not thinkable by the human mind. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest It is not thinkable, and yet the like of it happened to xis in Seville from our manager. Familiar Spanish Travels Or, as the law says, how can we think what is not thinkable? The American Union Speaker That is hardly thinkable!—Well, then I shall see to that. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans It is as if the question was an impossible one, outside the range of thinkable things. Mankind in the Making The distinction, once understood, applies to almost everything thinkable. Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use On the other hand, the special-creation hypothesis is shown to be not even a thinkable hypothesis, and, while thus intellectually illusive, to have moral implications irreconcilable with the professed beliefs of those who hold it. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents And when you consider the nature of news, it is not even thinkable. Public Opinion This is as the echo continuing to reverberate after the sound has ceased. ii To be is to think and to be thinkable. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Let us not marvel at this; it is not less thinkable than the proposition of two independent sources of life, the one physical, the other rational. The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? Bonbright's marriage had been no success; Bonbright was young; and it was not thinkable that he would not recover from that wound in time to marry again. Youth Challenges I confess that I find it hard work to get on intimate terms with evolution, familiarize my mind with it, and make it thinkable. Time and Change If we could not get over, then we must try to secure enough food and fuel to keep us alive through the winter, but this possibility was scarcely thinkable. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition It is certainly legitimate, for it is thinkable, whether we take it in its abstract or in its concrete shape. Pragmatism Is there a thinkable answer to this question of such a nature that the law of transmission of light in vacuo does not contradict the principle of relativity ? Relativity : the Special and General Theory "There is only one thinkable pretext for detaining you: it is that I may still show my sense of what you have done for me." Madame De Treymes Murder, that is thinkable, because there's a will behind it. Women in Love To go up again was scarcely thinkable in our utterly wearied condition. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition But Mrs. Gurley smiled the chilliest thinkable smile of acknowledgment, and did not reply a word. The Getting of Wisdom "It's physically impossible" someone had said... the only hell thinkable is remorse... remorse.... Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 Only somehow that thought was not quite thinkable. Robert Falconer Before you can sell a right, you must be able to make a sale thinkable in legal terms. The Common Law "How charming that you should make thinkable to us, make vocal, musical and comfortably certain, what we were all inclined to think; you creature plainly divine!" History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 In this way we can most easily envisage, or make thinkable by ourselves, the nature of the experiences of Jeanne d'Arc and other seers. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies Original also was the theory that he now suggested, which had at least the merit of being thinkable even by non-philosophical minds. A History of Science — Volume 2 He who possesses these gifts is sure not to stop in his questionings of nature until he has found some thinkable explanation of the character of matter itself. A History of Science — Volume 1 We may conclude that an effective simulation is hardly thinkable. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students “Assuredly—if you mean, as I do, something that includes all the loss and all the shame that are thinkable.” The Beast in the Jungle They had been hypnotised and obsessed by the idea that the Christian God is the only thinkable God. God the Invisible King As was explained in the discussion of resolution, the mouth is bound to close; spite and defiance are not thinkable with open mouth. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students |
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