Definitions

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  • Capable of being stated or expressed.

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  • adjective That can be stated

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  • adjective Capable of being stated.

Etymologies

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state +‎ -able

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Examples

  • When I find statable rules of expertise with which it seems good to agree, I will apply them myself to determine who is and is not expert, in what way, and to what extent – if, indeed, expertise can be in any way partial.

    Scalia Openly Condones Torture : Law is Cool 2008

  • When I find statable rules of expertise with which it seems good to agree, I will apply them myself to determine who is and is not expert, in what way, and to what extent–if, indeed, expertise can be in any way partial. huh?

    Scalia Openly Condones Torture : Law is Cool 2008

  • Mozart's thinking results in something playable, not statable;

    Gilbert Ryle Tanney, Julia 2007

  • For all these reasons, and for others less easily and briefly statable, I find the early morning to be my most ghostly time.

    The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

  • Properly formulated, it was a semantic principle concerning Ln that was statable only in its meta-language Ln+1.

    Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

  • However, in a second-order language, in which quantification over all properties (not just those for which the language contains predicates) is possible and Leibniz's Law is therefore statable, identity can be uniquely characterised.

    Identity Noonan, Harold 2006

  • Later in the nineteenth century, such a statement would have carried the implication that there exists a statable method for excluding acci - dent, or that the proof of common descent lies in the performance, in detail, of a consistent reconstruction.

    LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968

  • States in the absence of a federal question, on the basis of no statable constitutional principle, but through the grace of what Justice

    The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

  • Such grounds, for rationalism, must consist of four things: (1) definitely statable abstract principles; (2) definite facts of sensation; (3) definite hypotheses based on such facts; and (4) definite inferences logically drawn.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • It is the one statable revelation of truth which he is ready to stake his all upon.

    Emerson and Other Essays John Jay Chapman 1897

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