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Full Idea
You say you cannot imagine that p, and therefore declare that p is impossible. Mightn't that be hubris?
Gist of Idea
Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine?
Source
Daniel C. Dennett (Elbow Room: varieties of free will [1984], §7.3)
Book Ref
Dennett,Daniel C.: 'Elbow Room - Free will worth wanting' [MIT 1999], p.170
14039 | Above and below us will never appear to be the same, because it is inconceivable [Epicurus] |
13172 | What we cannot imagine may still exist [Leibniz] |
3802 | Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine? [Dennett] |
3903 | The conceivable can't be a test of the possible, if there are things which are possible but inconceivable [Scruton] |
17958 | The apparently metaphysically possible may only be epistemically possible [Vetter] |
19268 | Inconceivability (implying impossibility) may be failure to conceive, or incoherence [Vaidya] |