indemonstrable

In this circumstance, the belief in miracles and in things indemonstrable often meant freedom.

In logic the expressions demonstrable or indemonstrable are ordinarily employed only in respect of propositions.

In the form of a syllogism, the theological knowledge it imparted consisted of indemonstrable premises and a conclusion.

The permanence of the soul, therefore, as an object of the internal sense, remains undemonstrated, nay, even indemonstrable.

Now the aesthetic idea might, I think, be called an inexponible representation of the imagination, the rational idea, on the other hand, an indemonstrable concept of reason.

According to this account, to serve as satisfactory starting-points for scientific demonstration, the first principles, or axioms, need themselves to be indemonstrable; otherwise a demonstration would be needed of them.

Idealism- I mean material idealism- is the theory which declares the existence of objects in space without us to be either () doubtful and indemonstrable, or (2) false and impossible.

In the "Discourse," d'Alembert rejects a priori, indemonstrable speculations that lead to error and "intellectual despotism" and assumes a method based on hard facts and evidence (xxxv).

Reason would be unable to satisfy her own requirements, if she passed from a causality which she does know, to obscure and indemonstrable principles of explanation which she does not know.

If we leave this ground of experience, they become mere fictions of thought, the possibility of which is quite indemonstrable; and they cannot, consequently, be employed as hypotheses in the explanation of real phenomena.

His piracies were a moral, if not a provable, certainty; his dealings with illegals of every description, from druggers and psy- chotics to the bootleg ore industry in all its guises, were unquestionable, if indemonstrable.

But to assume that the soul is a simple substance (a transcendental conception) would be enouncing a proposition which is not only indemonstrable- as many physical hypotheses are- but a proposition which is purely arbitrary, and in the highest degree rash.

Chrysippus developed a syllogistic or system of deduction in which he made use of five types of basic arguments or argument forms called indemonstrable syllogisms, which played the role of axioms, and four inference rules, called themata by means of which complex syllogisms could be reduced to these axioms.