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Its "facile analysis of change is interesting; but it is undemonstrable," he wrote.

Picked out of their contexts and assembled this way, these remarks may sound intolerably vague or undemonstrable.

It is unproved and, so far, undemonstrable.

An undemonstrable proof," he said. "

Using archaeological evidence to draw inferences on society is always a risky procedure, fraught with the dangers of creating undemonstrable scenarios.

O something ecstatic and undemonstrable!

Kant's schemata of pure concepts are entirely undemonstrable and are a merely arbitrary assumption.

The first principle or element corresponds to the "ultimate underlying substance" and "ultimate undemonstrable principle".

Eric Kierans said, `this purely mechanistic vision of efficiency [is] unproved and undemonstrable....

Phylogenetics attempts to inject a serial element by postulating ad hoc, undemonstrable shared ancestors at each node of a cladistic tree.

Some hold the undemonstrable dogma of the existence of God; some the equally undemonstrable dogma of the existence of the man next door.

While human conceptual and even observational knowledge always carries with it an element of doubt, mystic knowledge is possessed of certainty, of direct perception and experience, quite undemonstrable to others.

Here the apparent depth of thought and the difficulty of the discussion merely serve to conceal from the reader the fact that its content remains an entirely undemonstrable and merely arbitrary assumption.

Without clear and unequivocal statements of how Compensation Services expects to meet anticipated challenges, changing circumstances and demands for more efficient and effective services, progress will be limited and success undemonstrable.

As Giegerich says, "For a true psychology, only the soul, which is certainly undemonstrable, merely 'metaphorical' and for this reason a seeming nothing, can be the 'substrate' and subject of the phenomena."

After informing the reader that this undemonstrable assertion is a "fact", Zerzan duly provides a footnote to prove it! That the assertion may in some sense be true, I do not wish to contest.

In ancient Greek philosophy, Aristotle foregrounded the meaning of arche as the element or principle of a thing, which although undemonstrable and intangible in itself, provides the conditions of the possibility of that thing.

The kindly old man, a toolmaker by day, dropped a few pearls of wisdom which, in his foggy starvation-daze, Royland did not perceive to be pearls of undemonstrable nonsense, and showed Royland how to meditate.

McEvilley (2002) also provides strongly persuasive arguments inferring the mutual influence and mutual iteration of the ancient Indian and Greek philosophical traditions but proffers patently inconclusive and undemonstrable evidence, the perennial bugbear of historical inquiry.

The authority of priests to absolve, the authority of popes to define the authority, even of inquisitors to terrify: these were all only dark defences erected round one central authority, more undemonstrable, more supernatural than all--the authority of a man to think.

Bacon's own utopianism led him not only to believe in wholly undemonstrable relationships between astronomical conjunctions and past historical events, such as the children's crusade, but also to predict that astrology would be a necessary tool in the forthcoming war against the infidel and the antichrist. '

On the other hand, like the Scholastics before him, while being cautious of common sense, Descartes was instead seen to rely too much on undemonstrable metaphysical assumptions in order to justify his method, especially in its separation of mind and body (with the sensus communis linking them).

Although this condemnation was solid Orthodox theology, Palamas took issue with Barlaam's argument in support of it, namely that efforts at demonstrating the nature of God (specifically, the nature of the Holy Spirit) should be abandoned, because God is ultimately unknowable and undemonstrable to humans.

It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a Familiar or Genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart; which is company for him, so that such men are often solitary, or if they chance to be social, do not need society, but can entertain themselves very well alone.

The Council recognized Aryans as being a linguistic-based group, and condemned the Manifesto for denying the influence of pre-Aryan civilization on modern Italy, saying that the Manifesto "constitutes an unjustifiable and undemonstrable negation of the anthropological, ethnological, and archaeological discoveries that have occurred and are occurring in our country".