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unprovable
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Adj.1.unprovable - not provableunprovable - not provable; "it was both unproved and unprovable"
unobvious - not immediately apparent; "in mathematical science connections are exhibited which...are extremely unobvious"- A.N.Whitehead
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unprovable
adj → nicht beweisbar
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Their perspectives include ascent propositions, and other formal objects; numbers, reference, and Russellian propositions; speech acts without propositions; fictional propositions and the unprovability of consistency; and negation.
Propositions; semantic and ontological issues by Reference & Research Book News
190) Both were generally respectful of majority choice in light of the unknowability and unprovability of moral claims, but only the younger man held tight to the notion that majority approval was not a signification of objective moral superiority or correctness.
Young Mr. Rehnquist's theory of moral rights - mostly observed by Kmiec, Douglas W. / Stanford Law Review
By applying a "diagonal proof" which Georg Cantor had used to show that the infinity of real numbers exceeds the infinity of whole numbers, Godel was able to construct a number that codes a true sentence which states its own unprovability.
Larger than proof by Gardner, Martin / New Criterion
 
 
 
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