indemonstrable

[ in-di-mon-struh-buhl, in-dem-uhn- ]

adjective

1. not demonstrable; incapable of being demonstrated or proved.

indemonstrable

/ ˌɪndɪˈmɒnstrəbəl /

adjective

1. incapable of being demonstrated or proved

Derived Forms

• ˌindeˌmonstraˈbility, noun
• ˌindeˈmonstrably, adverb

Other Words From

• inde·monstra·bili·ty inde·monstra·ble·ness noun
• inde·monstra·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of indemonstrable¹

First recorded in 1560–70; in- ³ + demonstrable

Example Sentences

Indemonstrable, in-de-mon′stra-bl, adj. that cannot be demonstrated or proved.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

In mathematics, according to Euclid's treatment, the axioms alone are indemonstrable first principles, and all demonstrations are in gradation strictly subordinated to them.

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Critical Reason, which realizes that deceptive fictions are not true thought, but dreams—not the result of ripe intellectual effort, but of the childish play of the imagination, seeks the roots of Morality not in the air or in the ether, but in the solid earth; not in some indemonstrable, transcendental sphere, but in an obvious need of human nature.

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To Euclid’s successors this axiom had signally failed to appear self-evident, and had failed equally to appear indemonstrable.

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A similar remark might be extended to every other class of phenomena really peculiar; and, had it been attended to, would have prevented many chimerical attempts at demonstrations of the indemonstrable, and explanations which do not explain.

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