provable

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To be sure, what theologians were investigating was, by definition, mysterious—unprovable in the way that scientific propositions are provable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

“These are cases where the provable facts supported charges.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

If it were provable, it would be false, contradicting logic.

From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2025

It is fair to ask why clarity about Title VII’s proper standard arrived here, and not in any number of cases involving marginalized workers who were told their mistreatment was not quite provable enough.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2025

In 1963 a mathematician, Paul Cohen, proved that this puzzle, the so-called continuum hypothesis, was neither provable nor disprovable, thanks to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife