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indubitability

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n.1.the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt; indubitableness.
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Noun1.indubitability - the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt
indisputability, unquestionability, unquestionableness
sure thing, certainty, foregone conclusion - something that is certain; "his victory is a certainty"
incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positiveness, positivity - the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about
demonstrability, provability - capability of being demonstrated or logically proved
givenness - the quality of being granted as a supposition; of being acknowledged or assumed


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The practical Dutch were taken with Descartes' emphasis on the special role of mathematics and his "exciting promise to deliver the groundworks for an explanation of the entire physical universe which would provide a degree of certainty and indubitability hitherto only achieved in geometry" (92).
Wiep Van Bunge. From Stevin to Spinoza: an Essay on Philosophy in the ... by Beardsley, W.H. / Renaissance Quarterly
10) In the preface he formulated for the first time the famous method of indubitability on which he founded the cogito argument.
Anamorphosis through Descartes or perspective gone awry by Massey, Lyle / Renaissance Quarterly
Having started on the way to truth by experiencing the illumination of the cogito, one ends by realizing that the indubitability of all clear and distinct ideas is not only a psychological fact that one accepts and lives with, but is a God-ordained fact, and hence objectively true.
The dreamer's path: Descartes and the Sixteenth Century by Keefer, Michael H. / Renaissance Quarterly
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