unverifiable

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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

So: Grim stuff, almost all of it unverifiable by any of those who’d tasked themselves with adjudicating the beef.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2024

It confronts us with an opaque message voiced in fatal and unverifiable idiom.

From Salon • May 4, 2024

Does Mr. Lilly suppose that I put aside "as unverifiable" all the truths of mathematics, of philology, of history?

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.