indemonstrable

American  

[in-di-mon-struh-buhl, in-dem-uhn-] / ˌɪn dɪˈmɒn strə bəl, ɪnˈdɛm ən- /

adjective

1. not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.

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indemonstrable British  

/ ˌɪndɪˈmɒnstrəbəl /

adjective

1. incapable of being demonstrated or proved

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Other Word Forms

• indemonstrability
  noun
• indemonstrableness
  noun
• indemonstrably
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of indemonstrable

First recorded in 1560–70; in- ³ + demonstrable

Example Sentences

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 Falckenberg, Richard

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

It is not everything that can be proved, otherwise the chain of proof would be endless; you must begin somewhere, and you must start with things admitted but indemonstrable.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

Kant begins by distinguishing two forms which idealism can take according as it regards the existence of objects in space as false and impossible, or as doubtful and indemonstrable.

From Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Prichard, Harold Arthur