undecidable

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You come to an impasse, because it's undecidable-neither option is better than the other.

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  1. Incapable of being decided, settled, or solved. [Rare.] There is hardly a greater and more undecidable problem in natural theology. South, Sermons, III. vi.

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  • Whether money exists in some quasi-platonic sense, independent of all the various currencies there have been, is a completely undecidable question. —  Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk
  • It is this "open chance and undecidable" resistance of the Moro people which makes it possible to integrate and articulate the socialist project in the Mindanao issue. —  mongster's nest
  • Kurt Godel used logic to prove there are mathematical problems that can not be solved and, in fact, propositions that are presumably true but which cannot be either proved or disproved and are therefore undecidable. —  All articles at Blogcritics
  • A close reading of Kant, for example, will suggest that the issue is intractable, if not undecidable. —  Darwiniana
  • You come to an impasse, because it's undecidable-neither option is better than the other. —  MetaFilter Projects
 

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