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  • adjective Not provable.

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non- +‎ provable

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Examples

  • People will probably still have innate curiousity and uncertainty dealing with nonprovable, metaphysical concepts.

    The Speculist: Survey Results 1-9 2006

  • People will probably still have innate curiousity and uncertainty dealing with nonprovable, metaphysical concepts.

    The Speculist: June 2006 Archives 2006

  • 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

  • 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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