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decidable

[ dih-sahy-duh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. capable of being decided. decided.
  2. Logic. (of an axiom, proposition, etc.) having the property that its consistency or inconsistency with the axioms of a given logical system is determinable.


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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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  • ³Ü²Ôd±ð·³¦¾±»åa·²ú±ô±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of decidable1

First recorded in 1585–95; decide + -able
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In some ways, it is the only argument worth having, since the specific cases are not decidable in advance in one way or another.

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If you impose any limit, even the lifetime of the universe, then it is decidable, although in practice, that is not much better than if it were not.

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Part of it was about maximum tax rates, a clear and decidable issue.

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This so-called Boolean satisfiability problem is decidable, but it remains an extraordinarily difficult logical problem.

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In like manner, "Intellect and Virtue," how they are proportional, or are indeed one gift in us, the same great summary of gifts; and again, "Might and Right," the identity of these two, if a man will understand this God's-Universe, and that only he who conforms to the law of it can in the long-run have any "might:" all this, at the first blush, often awakened Sterling's musketry upon me, and many volleys I have had to stand,—the thing not being decidable by that kind of weapon or strategy.

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