indemonstrable
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Etymology
Origin of indemonstrable
First recorded in 1560–70; in- 3 + demonstrable
Example Sentences
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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
It is an indemonstrable assumption that oaks and beeches in the days of Socrates and Cicero were not slightly better trees than the oaks and beeches of to-day.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
But wisdom draws conclusions from indemonstrable principles which are the object of the virtue of understanding, even as other sciences do.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
For instance, the whole of Arithmetic and Algebra has been shown to require three indefinable notions and five indemonstrable propositions.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
Reason, the faculty of Ideas, i.e., of the indemonstrable yet indubitable principles, is fully the peer of the sensibility and the understanding.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
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