The precise object of enquiry has not yet been yet defined, so the 'facts', whatever they may turn out to be, must also remainundefinable.
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This new theory created an opportunity for formerlyundefinableconcepts to be defined.
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Holmes reaffirmed that the extent to which public welfare could be used to justify limitations on liberty and property remainedundefinable.
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Nor can the incidence of prevalence of heresthetic be determined, because the universe of possible cases of it isundefinable.
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From this perspective, anything which impedes the elasticity of the interchanges of minorities, which seeks to impose definition upon theundefinable, is not only wrong but dangerous.
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I must admit that it appears to me to be an attempt to define theundefinable.
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It is a matter of trying to access theundefinablein the particular atmosphere of a particular shop floor in a particular factory.
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Affordability of course is not defined, and is probablyundefinable.
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They are to have their house property assessed not on its letting value but on some imaginary fictitious value which is undefined andundefinable.
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In these days anundefinablecommodity called a financial syndicate has been making itself manifest in various directions.
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But that particular andundefinabledistinction is fading away fast before our eyes.
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Large sections of the community now believe that this document in someundefinableway is addressed to the solution of these problems.
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It is dangerous,undefinableand virtually inoperable in any sense of legality, and therefore it is best left out.
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I do not care who it may be who attempts to define the real qualities of the nurses; to my mind they are absolutelyundefinable.
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Again, the word "hatred" is one of the vague,undefinablewords against which it must be hard for anybody to defend himself.
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