Debatable vs Decidable - What's the difference?
debatable | decidable |
Controversial. Not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously.
Of a person, argumentative.
A fitting subject for debate.
capable of being decided.
(computer science) describing a set for which there exists an algorithm that will determine whether any element is or is not within the set in a finite amount of time.
(logic) in intuitionistic logic, a proposition P'' is decidable in a given theory if it can be proven from the theory that "either ''P'' or not ''P ", i.e. in symbols: .http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-intuitionistic/
As an adjective debatable
is controversial not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously.As a noun decidable is
decidable.debatable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Those data are debatable , no one has been able to replicate them.
- It's debatable whether he is a stud.
- That debatable individual.
- The lack of bonuses isn't debatable.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
*decidable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is easy to show that the set of even numbers is decidable by creating the relevant Turing machine.
