Wherefore should a man be so richly rewarded for having been son to a millionaire, were it not clearly provable that the common welfare is thus better furthered?
Only such debts are provable as existed at the time of filing the petition.
Only a creditor who owns a demand or provable claim can vote at creditors' meetings.
But if you could establish that these Vedic sentences only prove what is provable by other evidence, this definition would be at once contradicted, just as if a man were to say that his mother was a barren woman.
For the sentences of the Veda are universally defined to be sentences which prove things that are notprovable by other evidence.
Where the document is an entry in a banker's book, provable according to the special provisions of the Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1879.
It is a provable and proven fact that vast tracts of the centre of poor old Ireland were once covered with coal-measures, which have been scraped off in likewise, deprived of inestimable mineral wealth.
And more, it is a provablefact that only a portion of the coal measures is left.
When we all get back to these elemental and provable facts there will be some hopes of ending the petty bickerings of creeds, and of including the whole human family in one comprehensive system of thought.
A simpler and more universal creed will take their place, when the mind of man is ready for it; and I believe it will be a creed founded upon those lines of absolute and provable truth which I have indicated.
Somebody breaks one of the eternal laws, the laws laid down in Genesis and provable in any twentieth-century laboratory.
Brenton isn't after any working truth to help along the rest of us; he's started hunting the ignis fatuus of abstract verity, provable to its utmost limit.
What was not believed by the heathen, and is not provable by reason, is the Christian doctrine of the resurrection; and this, and supernatural life and immortality, the spirits do not even pretend to teach.
For instance, Christopher Columbus from information based upon known and provable facts drew conclusions which led him unerringly across the vast ocean to the unknown continent of America.
Among the Greeks and Romans the criterion of knowledge was reason—that whatever isprovable and acceptable by reason must necessarily be admitted as true.
Among the Greeks and Romans the criterion of knowledge was reason; that whatever is provable and acceptable by reason must necessarily be admitted as true.
The point, in fact, which I wish now to notice is rather a matter of common observation than a provable and measurable phenomenon.
This characteristic--provable by actual observation and experiment--distinguishes our automatisms from various seemingly kindred phenomena.
