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  • adjective Able to be established.

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establish +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The point here is partly one made since the beginning of Internet time by journalists of a stricter cast: The Web lacks, to say the least, a trustworthy or reliable or, even, establishable provenance.

    Moguls: Politics and Power Kaplan, Thomas 2009

  • Moreover, PFO would have to be either ontologically innocent or committed only to entities whose existence is conceptually necessary (or at least establishable a priori).

    Plural Quantification Linnebo, Øystein 2008

  • The point here is partly one made since the beginning of Internet time by journalists of a stricter cast: The Web lacks, to say the least, a trustworthy or reliable or, even, establishable provenance.

    Brown's Black: Michael Wolff Wolff, Michael 2008

  • If the existence of God and what it was to act in accordance with His will were perfectly evident or clearly establishable by hard intellectual work, faith would lose its force and ration - ale.

    AGNOSTICISM KAI NIELSEN 1968

  • Legionnaire had sent it didn't seem establishable, and I suspected that Larteguy had made it up; I wasn't aware that he had commented on it.

    Chaos Manor Musings 2010

  • It is perfectly easily establishable whether there are rights attached to a particular copyright owner.

    ZDNet UK Highlights 2010

  • This is not a matter of opinion, simply a fact establishable by comparing Monckton's claims with Pinker's paper. 'legitimate to interpret the results in a new direction' is only saying Monckton can try, not that he has succeeded.

    Deltoid 2010

  • This is not a matter of opinion, simply a fact establishable by comparing Monckton's claims with Pinker's paper. 'legitimate to interpret the results in a new direction' is only saying Monckton can try, not that he has succeeded.

    Deltoid 2010

  • A necessary truth is an essential principle establishable as a priori by logical deduction, a fundamental form of any morphological system (e.g. a law in mathematics), one where (P2) for all values of W (1 ... n) (all possible worlds), it is always true that (P1) "W manifests the proposition, P, that 'W manifests X as a feature', as a feature."

    A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

  • A necessary truth is an essential principle establishable as a priori by logical deduction, a fundamental form of any morphological system (e.g. a law in mathematics), one where (P2) for all values of W (1 ... n) (all possible worlds), it is always true that (P1) "W manifests the proposition, P, that 'W manifests X as a feature', as a feature."

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

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