Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being investigated or searched out; open to investigation.
- That cannot be investigated; unsearchable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Unsearchable; inscrutable.
- adjective Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
investigated orstudied .
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Examples
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The meaning being used by Dawkins in this context is "investigable (at least in principle) by the methods of science."
Dawkins Regards a Supernatural Designer as a Scientific Hypothesis 2007
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The meaning being used by Dawkins in this context is "investigable (at least in principle) by the methods of science."
Dawkins Regards a Supernatural Designer as a Scientific Hypothesis 2007
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Regarding the law of nature, Hooker reiterated Thomas' emphasis on the role of reason: "those lawes are investigable by reason without the helpe of revelation supernaturall and divine ... meaning thereby the law which humaine nature knoweth itselfe in reason ... comprehendeth all those thinges which men by the light of their naturall understanding evidently know".
Iris Robinson, theological ignorance and the law of God Burke's Corner 2008
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Regarding the law of nature, Hooker reiterated Thomas' emphasis on the role of reason: "those lawes are investigable by reason without the helpe of revelation supernaturall and divine ... meaning thereby the law which humaine nature knoweth itselfe in reason ... comprehendeth all those thinges which men by the light of their naturall understanding evidently know".
Archive 2008-07-01 Burke's Corner 2008
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There are information sciences, rooted in the math of the natural world, investigable by MN (the subject of this thread), that create testable hypotheses and methods.
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Fellowship-granting organizations with their own ideas about how Africa may be broken down into investigable units, Mozambican bureaucrats skeptical of my reasons for wanting to venture into the countryside, historians in Mozambique who believe that the country's past must be approached in a "usable" wayall have been interested parties for whom Magude is a convenient construct, necessary in the work of trying to govern, "develop," or study the region.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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This is what distinguishes scientifically investigable phenomena physics in the ultimate sense from other purported phenomena.
Dembski, secret handshakes and Darwinian theory - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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It is my argument that implicit in taking action in this case is the assumption that this signal is empirically investigable.
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It would make complete sense to try to ape the scientific method, both in order to attain scientific status, and also because intelligence is something that is considered to be investigable and “mechanistic” in the sense that Dembski is using.
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Thus human designs would not be analogous with any scientifically investigable designer, even if our designs appeared to be similar to the forms of organisms.
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