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- adjective Not
provable .
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non- + provable
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Examples
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People will probably still have innate curiousity and uncertainty dealing with nonprovable, metaphysical concepts.
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People will probably still have innate curiousity and uncertainty dealing with nonprovable, metaphysical concepts.
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The Incompleteness Theorem, for example, is proven by an actual construction of a true nonprovable statement.
The Dream of Mind and Machine Rothstein, Edward 1979
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Stating the ending of a life (provable fact) is wrong with reasoning of a chosen god or religion (nonprovable fact) undermines the very logic of the argument one is trying to make.
Stars and Stripes 2009
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