Definition of Demonstrable

1. Adjective. Necessarily or demonstrably true. "Demonstrable truths"

Exact synonyms: Incontrovertible
Similar to: Incontestable, Incontestible
Derivative terms: Incontrovertibleness

2. Adjective. Capable of being demonstrated or proved. "Practical truth provable to all men"
Exact synonyms: Provable
Similar to: Obvious
Derivative terms: Demonstrability, Provability

Definition of Demonstrable

1. a. Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.

Definition of Demonstrable

1. Adjective. Able to be demonstrated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Demonstrable

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Demonstrable

1. 1. Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question. "The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry." (Glanvill) 2. Proved; apparent. Origin: L. Demonstrabilis: cf. OF. Demonstrable, F. Demontrable. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Demonstrable

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demonstrability
demonstrable (current term)
demonstrableness
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Literary usage of Demonstrable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"A demonstrable judgment is a problematical one, of the class which is capable of being ... Intuitive judgments by which the demonstrable may be evinced, ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"Cerebral Palsies without demonstrable Anatomical Findings," by Dr. John HW Rhein. " Experimental Study of Intra- cranial Injection of Alcohol," by Dr. ..."

3. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Locke had admitted, with ftis usual candour, that the immortality of the soul was not 'demonstrable by reason, and had asserted that few Christians ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... and relatively unimportant, being always related to a background of existence which forever remains beyond abstract thinking. All demonstrable knowledge ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... opposition to an article of faith may not be strictly demonstrable, but only reach a certain degree of probability. In that case the doctrine is termed ..."

6. Serology of Nervous and Mental Diseases by David Michael Kaplan (1914)
"Other protein bodies are also present, and are demonstrable by suitable chemical methods. The reduction of the Fehling solution is absent, as a rule. ..."

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