indeterminable

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When a man has learnt that truth is indeterminable, how is it more moral to go about crying that you don't believe a certain dogma than to concede that the dogma may possibly be true?

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  1. adjective Impossible to fix or measure: indeterminable traces of poison; indeterminable assets.
  2. adjective Impossible to settle or decide with finality: indeterminable questions.

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  • "How much does Doc Savage know Doc Savage's knowledge is indeterminable, magnitudinous," said Johnny Kettler shot his jaw out. —  029 - Quest of Qui
  • The installation is comprised of a room of an indeterminable size filled with fog such that each viewer is able to see their own hands at best. —  Daily Serving
  • Twenty-first century threats are international in character and indeterminable in length. —  Front Page - The Washington Times
  • This not an easy book to read (it is stuffed with lengthy excerpts from internal documents of indeterminable significance) or, especially, for a non-specialist, to evaluate. —  Spero News
  • The incident speaks to an uncharted range of accountability problems with an increasing number of filmmakers entering into deals that ask them to sign away digital rights for indeterminable periods and vaguely defined profits. —  indieWIRE News
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  1. = French indéterminable = Spanish indeterminable = Portuguese indeterminavel = Italian indeterminabile, from Late Latin indeterminabilis, that cannot be defined, from in- privative + determinabilis, that can be defined: see determinable.
 

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/ɪndəˈtərmɪnəbl/
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