solvability

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve

From solvable + -ity.

While this optimism, resting on apparently unobjectionable æterna veritates, believed in the intelligibility and solvability of all the riddles of the world, and treated space, time, and causality as totally unconditioned laws of the most universal validity, Kant, on the other hand, showed that these served in reality only to elevate the mere phenomenon, the work of Mâyâ, to the sole and highest reality, putting it in place of the innermost and true essence of things, thus making the actual knowledge of this essence impossible, that is, according to the expression of Schopenhauer, to lull the dreamer still more soundly asleep (Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, I. — The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

solubility

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