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Provable

Provable \Prov"a*ble\, a. [See Prove, and cf. Probable.] Capable of being proved; demonstrable. -- Prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Prov"a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
provable

late 14c., "approvable;" c.1400, "that can be proved," from Old French provable, from prover (see prove (v.)).

Wiktionary
provable

a. Of a statement or hypothesis that can be proven.

WordNet
provable

adj. capable of being demonstrated or proved; "obvious lies"; "a demonstrable lack of concern for the general welfare"; "practical truth provable to all men"- Walter Bagehot [syn: demonstrable]

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Provable

Provability or Provable may refer to:

  • Proof (disambiguation)
  • Proof theory, a branch of mathematical logic
  • Provability logic, a modal logic

Usage examples of "provable".

A provision that claims resulting from rejection of an unexpired lease should be treated as on a parity with provable debts, but limited to an amount equal to three years rent, was held not to amount to a taking of property without due process of law, since it provided a new and more certain remedy for a limited amount, in lieu of an existing remedy inefficient and uncertain in result.

It was all muckraking and lies and maliciousness, actual or otherwise, provable or not.

Although the idea that psi capacities were a scientifically provable fact was new then, those who were beginning to explore them tended either to be part of a traditional religious community or part of the new wave of philosophies that included relearning Native American ways, or Eastern philosophies, or both.

In fact, the only provable hate crime in Lackawanna was committed by the New York Times, which ran a staged photo of a six-year-old boy pointing a toy gun at a sign that said "Arabian Foods.

And yet his whole life long physics had been getting more and more complicated, with postulated micro-dimensions taken as fact, and symmetries of fairly simple but scarily small strings invoked as explanations even though they were many magnitudes of size smaller than could over be observed - the unobservability was itself mathematically provable.