unverifiable

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But credible reports from Iranian journalists, which are unverifiable due to the country’s internet blackout, indicate that the death toll could be much higher, exceeding 16,500.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2026

The court has previously upheld limited emergency entries, but always with clearly defined exigencies, not the unbounded, unverifiable standard Montana now asks it to adopt.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2025

By the mid-20th-century, however, leading behavioral theorists denigrated the idea of studying animal emotions since, even if they existed, they were scientifically unmeasurable and unverifiable.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

On the question of forward-looking models, the group also argues that it would allow companies to use opaque, unverifiable algorithms to set prices, rather than verifiable historical data.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2023

But in strict theory the two are quite different, since the denial introduces an element of unverifiable dogma which is wholly absent when we merely refrain from the assertion.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand