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indemonstrable
adjective
social science specializeduk /ˌɪn.dɪˈmɒn.strə.bəl/ us /ˌɪn.dɪˈmɑːn.strə.bəl/
not able to be proved:
The correctness of moral claims is frequently indemonstrable, and is therefore likely to be controversial.
This statement is self-evident and therefore indemonstrable.
Aristotle's account of the indemonstrable first premises of the sciences has often been regarded as a difficult text to interpret.
It is only by logic that we can understand the indemonstrable first principles of science.
As the Greek anatomist Herophilus said: "Wisdom is indemonstrable, wealth useless, and speech impotent if health be absent."
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