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decidable

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decidable - decidability

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Reading Benjamin's essay, Jacques Derrida offers that divine violence, "does not lend itself to any human determination, to any knowledge or decidable 'certainty' on our part.
Science can deal only with the decidable, and, as Godel has shown, there are undecidables even within mathematics.
The more decidable things are, the more rule-governed they are and the more easily we can excuse ourselves for what we have done by saying, "this is really not my doing, it's the rule.
 
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