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If unverifiable, it would be deleted.
If, as Collingwood argues, there are presuppositions which are meaningful, even if unverifiable, this means that metaphysics does have a legitimate subject matter after all, even if it is not "pure being" and that Collingwood has succeeded in defending the possibility (of some form of) metaphysics against the logical positivist's critique.
According to one report that Barnes calls "plausible, if unverifiable", 660 Christians were killed in Alexandria alone between 303 and 311.
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Throughout the book, Levitin builds many hypotheses upon logical if essentially unverifiable extrapolations of evolutionary theory, using it to account for almost any widespread trait in humans or other animals that is beneficial to mating or survival, so that his faith in the explanatory power of Darwinism becomes almost religious.
But if the world has learned one thing about this age of terrors, it is that wishful thinking, succumbing to blackmail, and vesting false hopes in unverifiable agreements are no answer at all.
But if E is unverifiable, then a bet on it cannot be used to elicit the agent's probability for it.
The heuristic principles which govern forms of enquiry are meaningful even if they are unverifiable because they are not propositions at least not in Collingwood's technical use of the term.
Still, according to some, the fair price of a bet on E measures the wrong quantity: not your probability that E will be the case, but rather your probability that E will be the case and that the prize will be paid, which may be rather less — for example, if E is unverifiable.
Basil Mitchell used a parable to show that faith can be logical, even if it seems unverifiable.
You do not have to write off the possibility of unverified or unverifiable phenomena.
Keep in mind that a negative item must be removed from your credit report if it is inaccurate, unverifiable or incomplete.
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