indemonstrable
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Origin of indemonstrable
First recorded in 1560–70; in- 3 + demonstrable
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Like all ultimate postulates it is indemonstrable; Mill's derivation of it from Experience did not amount to a demonstration.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
In vain is it proclaimed that they lead back only to the point of ignorance from which they started; in vain is it demonstrated that certain problems are indemonstrable.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
In mathematics, according to Euclid's treatment, the axioms alone are indemonstrable first principles, and all demonstrations are in gradation strictly subordinated to them.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
Thus, in speculative matters, the indemonstrable principles are not the habit itself whereby we hold those principles, but are the principles the habit of which we possess.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
But that all dreams are to be interpreted bisexually, seems to me to be a generalization as indemonstrable as it is improbable, which I should not like to support.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud
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