inapplicability

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Government lawyers have defended the legality of these purchases—and the inapplicability of Carpenter—by arguing that the government is a customer like any other.

From Slate • May 9, 2022

Their inapplicability deeply embarrasses us whenever we come to recognize that we are not who and what we say we are.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2017

As an example of the inapplicability of past experience, I may mention an argument against Republics which has been much used of late by the partisans of monarchy in France.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

The inapplicability of this progression idea to our object is evident directly we apply it to space.

From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich

Against all these interpretations there lies moreover the objection founded on the inapplicability of the term 'Self.'

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George