Investigable vs Investigatable - What's the difference?
investigable | investigatable |
(chiefly, philosophy, and, science) Capable of being investigated or studied.
* 1869 , Dr. Mann, "Statistical Notes Regarding the Colony of Natal," Journal of the Statistical Society of London , vol. 32, no. 1, p. 3:
* 1954 , James Bates, "A Model for the Science of Decision," Philosophy of Science , vol. 21, no. 4, p. 336:
* 2003 , J. Andrew Mendelsohn, "The Microscopist of Modern Life," Osiris , 2nd series, vol. 18, p. 159:
As adjectives the difference between investigable and investigatable
is that investigable is capable of being investigated or studied while investigatable is alternative form of investigable.investigable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Indeed it is only possible to learn any thing at all of these really curious and interesting aboriginal people, by cross-examining living men, and ascertaining what they remember to have heard their fathers or their grandfathers say. The period which goes back beyond this very brief depth of reliable and investigable tradition is an absolute blank.
- This, of course, leaves aside those in value theory who maintain that values are not investigable by science.
- The Paris population might hold bacteriological and epidemiological secrets, but to Yersin they were investigable and knowable ones.