indecidability

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noun

undecidability

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Meanings

nounindecidability (countable and uncountable, plural indecidabilities)

plural indecidabilities

  1. countableuncountableundecidability

    …that of decidability as well as indecidability.

    2002, Zeynep Direk, Leonard Lawlor, Jacques Derrida: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, page 56
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    The text's indecidability is elaborated in terms of and as an operative feature of its textuality.

    2013, Hugh J. Silverman, Textualities, page 80

    Indecidability could take ethics into nihilism and relativism…

    2015, David L. Goicoechea, Agape and Hesed-Ahava: With Levinas-Derrida and Matthew at Mt. Angel and St. Thomas (a Doxology of Reconciliation), page 165

Origin

From in- + decidability.

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