undecidability

Examples

• All

• In the last example of authorial carelessness, truth claims about the text(s) have a range of undecidability.

  Academic text (1995)

• The condition of undecidability, once acknowledged, is not easily dispensed with, as Friday, when told that God is undoubtedly stronger than the devil, wonders why God does not simply kill the devil and be done with the matter.

  Academic text (2017)

• Ambiguity involves both multivalence and undecidability or openness.

  Academic text (2017)

• Imposing a remote, other vision on a situated viewer, television creates what Samuel Weber refers to as "undecidability," a condition that the screen itself simultaneously masks and marks.

  Academic text (1998)

• Insofar as we are dealing primarily with written documents, the problematics of textuality here have nothing to do with an aporia of undecidability and everything to do with the demands of decorum in its full classical sense: the difficult attempt to work out which modes and techniques of representation are appropriately responsive to the exigencies of different human experiences.

  Academic text (1993)

• The undecidability of the jury's verdict left everyone in suspense until the final announcement.

• Many philosophical debates revolve around the undecidability of certain fundamental truths.

Synonyms

U

unknowability

vsundecidability

1 9.9

A quality that makes facts and events impossible to find out or fully understand

focuses on lack of enough proof to make a clear choice

I

inconclusiveness

vsundecidability

7.7

Not giving a clear result or decision

is about inability to reach a clear choice because evidence is insufficient

Antonyms

D

decidability

• Specialized

8.8

A question about whether a problem can be solved by a clear step by step method

How Decidable

certainty

• Literature

202 3.4

decidability

• Specialized

8.8

uncertainty

296 4.0

inconclusiveness

7.7

undecidability

9.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology