unlearnable

Some things are learnable, and some things are unlearnable and have to be confronted again and again.

2008 November | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2008

Some things are learnable, and some things are unlearnable and have to be confronted again and again.

2008 November 26 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2008

Some things are learnable, and some things are unlearnable and have to be confronted again and again.

Paris Review’s Philip Gourevitch on the worth of Author Interviews 2008

One such group contained those who came to hate and despise the Chinese language; they found it unlearnable, and grew convinced that the whole language was some kind of plot to snare the unwary, and even to drive poor foreigners mad.

The Passions of Joseph Needham Spence, Jonathan D. 2008

That is, if the innateness of UG tout court is to be supported by poverty of the stimulus considerations, the idea must be that the cases that nativists discuss in detail (polar interrogatives, complex auxiliaries, etc.) are but the tip of the unlearnable iceberg.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

This situation is quite general: many rules of grammar are unlearnable from the pld.

Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008

Opponents to homosexual rights often argue heavily that this is a "learned" and unlearnable behavior for just this reason.

And the sign said... 2006

In fact, by the time you add all the Boolean disjunctions necessary to define a concept as simple as BACHELOR, you've probably made the defininition unlearnable.

Concepts I: The Classical View Chris 2005

There is knowledge that only certain types of minds can hold and use, and to others it remains for all time unlearnable.

Key Out of Time Andre Norton 1958

The secret of his means of complete and unutterable communication lay in that very essence which I have only defined as an IS; ended and began with an innate and unlearnable control over all which one can only describe as the homogeneously tactile.

The Enormous Room 1928