non-derivable

Meanings

adjectivenon-derivable (not comparable)

not comparableNot derivable; uncapable of being derived.
Here, then, is an example of an arithmetical statement that may be true, but may be non-derivable from the axioms of arithmetic.
1989, Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman, Godel's Proof

Opposite

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