Conceivability and modal knowledge

In Tamara Horowitz & Gerald J. Massey, Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (1991)
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I argue for an analysis of conceivability as a form of modal knowledge: to conceive of p's being true is to know that "Possibly, p" is true.

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