indemonstrable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of indemonstrable
First recorded in 1560–70; in- 3 + demonstrable
Example Sentences
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Reason would be unable to satisfy her own requirements, if she passed from a causality which she does know, to obscure and indemonstrable principles of explanation which she does not know.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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 Aquinas Thomas
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
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
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