provability.

The capacity of a proposition to be proved under relevant premises or rules.

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Words that belong together

• formal provability
• provability of a proposition

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Formal provability depended on the axioms admitted by the system.

The proposition’s provability was a different question from the audience’s confidence.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: explicit explanation, scope and categorization, proof and interpretation, philosophical foundations. Disciplines: academic writing, formal reasoning, philosophy. Commonness: moderately common.