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What does decidable mean?

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Adjective
  1. capable of being decided.
  2. (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.
  3. (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:
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There is as yet no warrant for ruling out an arithmetical set that is not decidable, or for ruling out a decidable set that is not arithmetical.
Which mathematical theory best describes real space is an empirical issue, not decidable independently of physical considerations.
There are uncountably many subsets of N, but since there are only countably many Turing machines, there can be only countably many decidable sets.
Moreover, the geometries axiomatized in the book have consistent and decidable extensions, namely, Euclidean or hyperbolic geometry over real-closed fields.
The novelty of OWL-E is that it enhances OWL DL with much more datatype expressiveness and it is still decidable.
We prove here that the finite power property is decidable for rational sets of the free group.

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