disputable

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The statement is roughly as disputable as saying that fire is hot or water is wet.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2022

Its effectiveness is scarcely disputable: The Commonwealth Fund estimates that the vaccine averted about 1.1 million American deaths from COVID-19 and more than 10.3 million hospitalizations this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2021

What wasn’t disputable is that instead of Seattle having first-and-10 at the Arizona 11, and possibly finally rattling McCoy some, the Cardinals instead had it back to punt on fourth down.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2021

How accountable are we for high school actions, when this is clearly a disputable high school action?

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2018

Footnote 1: I purposely chose disputable propositions to emphasise the fact that Formal Logic has no concern with the truth, but only with the interdependence of its propositions.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William