Talk:arguable

Aren't meanings 1 and 2 in plain contradiction? Vlk (talk) 09:47, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

"debatable" might be better suited for the second meaning. Maybe it can be linked in the definition? Mistaking similar words is not uncommon either, hence the "colloquial" label. 2A02:A317:8144:2F80:2F6A:2EC8:9D1B:CF12 21:25, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Not necessarily. They could be seen as merely two different aspects of the meaning "strongly supported", the one stressing the likelihood of its being true, the other the absence of definite proof. -- But even if they were contradictive: most or all languages have words that mean X and its opposite. Not at all unheard of.