Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being opined or thought.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being opined or thought.
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- adjective Capable of being
opined orthought .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now how he could have left sense and opinion, if he had not also left any sensible and opinable object, it is impossible for any man to say.
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For example if it makes no difference whether we say that the supposable is not the genus of the opinable or that the opinable is not identical with a particular kind of supposable (for what is meant is the same in both statements), it is better to take as the terms the supposable and the opinable in preference to the phrase suggested.
Prior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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For example if it makes no difference whether we say that the supposable is not the genus of the opinable or that the opinable is not identical with a particular kind of supposable (for what is meant is the same in both statements), it is better to take as the terms the supposable and the opinable in preference to the phrase suggested.
PRIOR ANALYTICS Aristotle 1989
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