ascertainable

Examples

• All

• First, has military force been properly authorized against an ascertainable group of nonstate actors?

  Academic text (2005)

• The precise causal factors for these differences are not directly ascertainable from the data.

  Academic text (1993)

• Accordingly, there exist ascertainable rules that can be called upon in appropriate circumstances.

  Academic text (2001)

• Second, is the detainee in question actually a member of that ascertainable group?

  Academic text (2005)

• The reason is not directly ascertainable from the regression.

  Academic text (2000)

• In addition, the potential reasons why the Service Convention may not be applicable in a particular case are readily ascertainable.

  Academic text (2017)

• But even events that are less crucial are still often incompletely ascertainable.

  Academic text (1991)

• For a contract to be enforceable, the terms of the agreement must be ascertainable to a reasonable degree of certainty.

  Academic text (2016)

• More importantly, they are plans whose existence and content are determined exclusively by publicly ascertainable social facts rather than by moral theory.

  Academic text (2017)

• A law is constitutionally impermissible if it singles out specific individuals or businesses, a group, or readily ascertainable members of a group.

  Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

V

verifiable

vsascertainable

26 5.1

Someone can prove a claim true by checking the facts

is broader, meaning able to be determined not only by factual checks

P

provable

vsascertainable

10 5.0

Someone can show it is true using evidence or reasons

is used for general determination not limited to formal proof

D

demonstrable

vsascertainable

9 5.8

Can be shown to be true by clear proof

is the broader idea of being determined beyond clear proof

T

testable

vsascertainable

8 3.9

You can check by experiment or evidence

is about being determinable in general, not only by tests

K

knowable

vsascertainable

4 4.6

Something you can learn or understand

is specifically about being able to be determined or made certain

D

discoverable

vsascertainable

3 2.9

Something that can be found or learned

focuses on being determinable rather than only being found

C

confirmable

vsascertainable

• Specialized

2 5.1

A claim that testing can show is true or false

is the general capacity to be determined beyond experimental proof

C

checkable

vsascertainable

1 3.4

Able to be tested and proved using facts

is the wider capacity to be found or made certain, not just checked

D

deducible

vsascertainable

1 6.6

Able to be worked out from the given information

emphasises logical derivation rather than direct discovery or proof

I

inferable

vsascertainable

6.1

You can understand it from facts or clues

points to reaching conclusions by inference rather than direct proof

Antonyms

U

unascertainable

9.8

Not possible to find out for certain

How Findable

obvious

∞ 1.0

ascertainable

• Formal

1 6.7

obscure

84 7.0

hidden

125 1.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology