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indemonstrable, a.|ɪndɪˈmɒnstrəb(ə)l|
[in-3: cf. F. indémonstrable (Littré).]
Incapable of being demonstrated or proved. (Said esp. of primary or axiomatic truths, principles, etc.)
1570Billingsley Euclid i. i. 9 The first principles and grounds, which are indemonstrable. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. i. §4 (1622) 6 The first and most ancient principle, and therefore of all other the most indemonstrable. 1785Reid Intell. Powers vi. vii. (1803) II. 388 We find likewise some of the axioms of geometry mentioned by Aristotle as axioms, and as indemonstrable principles of mathematical reasoning. 1867Contemp. Rev. VI. 447 Let us give up endeavouring to demonstrate the indemonstrable. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant i. 139 Certain primary conceptions or indemonstrable material principles of truth.
Hence indeˈmonstrableness, incapability of being demonstrated; indeˈmonstrably adv.
1654Warren Unbelievers 195 Which indemonstrably sheweth the instrumentality of this grace. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Indemonstrableness. |