Examples of unanswerable

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Here any observer must find himself once again in bewilderment and concern; the question is intensely interesting but humanly unanswerable.
A supposedly unanswerable statement stubbornly asserted from a variety of post-modern cul-de-sacs.
Because of the range of assumptions and historical might-have-beens involved, the debate seems unanswerable in anything like precise terms.
In some instances questions pertaining to neurophysiology action appear to be unanswerable by any experimental techniques now known or easily envisioned.
If by the late seventies the intellectual arguments of poststructuralism began to seem virtually unanswerable, resistance eventually crystallized around the question of history.
Being unanswerable, it suggests that the terms of the discussion are wrong.
Between the skeptical opening and the unanswerable end is a story that explores belief and unbelief.
Legislators deliberately create relative borderline cases to control the way a question is answered, not to make it entirely unanswerable.
How and why certain news stories were selected, and who wrote these stories, remain largely unanswerable questions for historians of the eighteenth century.
Again, these criticisms are generally acceptable and yet on the whole unanswerable.
Let the soritesmonger go on with his unanswerable questions.
Taken in its own terms, the conservative position is unanswerable.
Against the living death of modern material civilisation he spoke again and again, and even if these dead could speak, what he said is unanswerable.
Inevitably, some fundamental questions are suggested, but remain unanswered (and are probably unanswerable).
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