indefinability

According to Mr. Gordon, the Kitchen's 1981 music menu was defined by its indefinability.

A Party So Nice They're Throwing It Twice Bruce Bennett 2011

In my opinion, the indefinability of particulars makes it impossible for substantial forms to be particulars.

Aristotle's Metaphysics Cohen, S. Marc 2008

The related axiomatic study of epistemic notions has benefited from application of techniques used for proving incompleteness and indefinability results since the early sixties.

Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic Cantini, Andrea 2007

The same arguments by which good was shown to be indefinable can be repeated here, mutatis mutandis, to show the indefinability of ought.™

Russell's Moral Philosophy Pigden, Charles 2007

As a matter of fact the lemma has become the standard tool for producing self-referential statements and for transforming the semantical paradoxes into indefinability and (formal) undecidability results.

Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic Cantini, Andrea 2007

Among logicians and mathematicians he is in addition famous for his work on set theory, model theory and algebra, which includes results and developments such as the Banach-Tarski paradox, the theorem on the indefinability of truth (see section 2 below), the completeness and decidability of elementary algebra and geometry, and the notions of cardinal, ordinal, relation and cylindric algebras.

Alfred Tarski Gómez-Torrente, Mario 2006

But he also says that the proof of the indefinability theorem can be adapted to show that, in general, one cannot define a truth predicate "if the order of the metalanguage is at most equal to that of the language itself"

Alfred Tarski Gómez-Torrente, Mario 2006

There is an indefinability and preciousness about her, a mystique which informs her, an exceeding of what is seen, a nature and wondrous mystery, like that of a companion and lover, a creature and friend.

Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

This indefinability requires caution, the avoidance of risk involved in definitive formulations, and a reluctance to rush things.

Letter from the Gdansk Prison Michnik, Adam 1985

As such he is a finite infinity, an "indefinability that is conscious of itself," the very embodiment of the mystery we usually call God.

The Dream of Karl Rahner Sheehan, Thomas 1982