Literary notes about demonstrable (AI summary)
The term "demonstrable" has been deployed across literary, philosophical, and scientific texts to denote that which is capable of being clearly shown or proven. In psychoanalytic contexts, Freud employs the term to specify elements like dream symbols and peculiarities in regressive representations, arguing their demonstrability as observable facets of the unconscious ([1], [2]). In criminal psychology, Hans Gross presents demonstrable habits as tangible facts that can explain otherwise mysterious behaviors ([3], [4]), while Coleridge contrasts the demonstrable with the intuitive, suggesting that certain mathematical propositions spring from a practically felt idea rather than from plain demonstration ([5]). Philosophers such as Kant and Santayana use "demonstrable" to underline the essential requirement that concepts and the objects they represent must be subject to verification, even as Santayana expands the notion to elements of human progress and art ([6], [7], [8], [9], [10]). The term, thus, appears both as a marker of empirical evidence in scientific and judicial discourse and as a conceptual tool in philosophical and literary debates, as evidenced not only by these examples but also by its occasional juxtaposition with myth or the ineffable as noted by Whitman and Jefferson ([11], [12]).
- Dream symbols are the most easily demonstrable, and after them, certain peculiarities of regressive dream representations.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - It is easily demonstrable that the attraction to the melody is associated with the text, or its origin.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - If such habits are demonstrable facts they serve to explain otherwise unexplainable events.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - The first to have attempted a sharp distinction between demonstrable and probable knowledge was Locke.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - The mathematician does not begin with a demonstrable proposition, but with an intuition, a practical idea.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Concepts of the Understanding must, as such, always be demonstrable
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - In human consciousness the indispensable is in inverse ratio to the demonstrable.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - In prose the vehicle for communication is a conventional sign, standing in the last analysis for some demonstrable object or controllable feeling.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - The gods are demonstrable only as hypotheses, but as hypotheses they are not gods.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Science becomes demonstrable in proportion as it becomes abstract.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - As if the beauty and sacredness of the demonstrable must fall behind that of the mythical!
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - It is demonstrable, in some cases at least, that such a complete conversion has actually taken place,
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson