knowable
IPA: nˈoʊʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Capable of being known, understood or comprehended.
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Examples of "knowable" in Sentences
- Only, 'knowable' matters just to those who need rigid definitions.
- Of course this principle must itself be knowable, that is, we get the following logical principle:
- I don't think that's knowable, which is why there may not be much that can be done to fix things until we see the actual debacle unfold.
- We should therefore feel compelled to grant Joyce's premise that there is such a complete non-moral genealogy only if we have already given up on the idea of knowable moral truths.
- But any further inquiry along those lines would have disclosed that the ISI was an original patron of the Taliban, a fact "knowable" by anyone yet inconvenient for the ISI's senior partner in Langley, Virginia, to admit.
- This is one area I give postmodern Christians credit for - they embrace uncertainty, they question commonly held assumptions and structures, things are not as "knowable" - as definitive - as they are for the traditional evangelical.
- And, in either case, the sharp distinction between the real and the phenomenal vanishes; and what remains, is not a reality outside of consciousness, or different from ideas, but a reality related to consciousness, or, in other words, a knowable reality.
- For example, to define mind and to separate it from the rest of the knowable which is called matter, the general mode of reasoning is as follows: all the knowable which is apparent to our senses is essentially reduced to motion; "mind," that something which lives, feels, and judges, is reduced to "thought."
- If in this way we are to understand any thing of God's nature, we must by consequence understand so much of our own nature: that is, that it is a reasonable nature, that it is an intelligent nature, that it is a nature capable of improving itself in point of knowledge, by ratiocination and discourse; and even of knowledge concerning the highest and greatest, and first knowable, that is God and the very nature of God.
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