imaginabilityn.
/ɪˌmadʒᵻnəˈbɪlᵻti/, /ɪˌmadʒn̩əˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ᵻˌmædʒ(ə)nəˈbɪlᵻdi/ Chiefly Philosophy. The quality of being imaginable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > imaginable quality
imaginability1830
visuality1841
1830 S. T. Coleridge On Constit. Church & State 219 In order to the imaginability of a circular line, the extröitive and retroitive must co-exist in one and the same act and moment, the curve line being the product.
1878 Mind 3 215 The first thing to settle is the rule by which we shall judge of the imaginability of an object that we have never actually seen.
1908 Mind 17 402 The conditions of imaginability depend on our actual senses.
1953 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Philos. Investig. i. 395 There is a lack of clarity about the role of imaginability in our investigation.
2000 D. D. Hutto Beyond Physicalism iii. 82 Their [sc. zombies'] imaginability does not serve to refute or support any given theory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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