47 examples of knowable in sentences

If we consider what is knowable about the earth, we shall find that such earth-knowledgeif I may so translate the word geologyfalls into the same categories.

To say that Mr. Laing is absolutely certain of the all-sufficiency of evolutionism to explain everything that is knowable to the human mind, that he does not hint for a moment that this philosophy is found by the "bell-wethers" of science to be every day less satisfactory as a complete rationale of the physical cosmos; is really to understate the case for sheer lack of words to express the intensity of his conviction.

In the last line Campanella expresses his opinion that God is knowable by an immediate act of perception analogous to the sense of taste:

The doctrine of the Unknowable and the knowable.

Dante, in the fierce egotism of his passions, and the strange identification of his knowledge with all that was knowable, would fain have made his poetry both a sword against individuals, and a prop for the support of the superstition that corrupted them.

True, no truth and no reality are wholly 'objective,' in the sense of wholly indifferent to our action; but to say that the human and 'subjective' factor in all knowledge must be taken into account does not preclude our apprehending and measuring an 'objective' world as real as, and more knowable than, any other theory can offer.

The limits of possible experience are also the limits of the knowable; inferences to the continued existence of the soul after death and to the being of God are vain sophistry and illusion.

Neither matter nor spirit is in its essence knowable; the world is probably quite different from our sensuous conception of it.

Empiricism, on the other hand, is justified when it asserts that the experiential alone is knowable.

Whatever is to be knowable must be given as a real in sensuous intuition.

are all objects knowable which have been so regarded?

That which according to Kant exists outside the representation of the individual is twofold: (1) the unknown things in themselves with their problematical characteristics, as the ground of phenomena; (2) the phenomena "themselves" with their knowable immanent laws, and their relations in space and time, as possible representations.

Nevertheless the temptation to regard these regulative principles as constitutive and these problems as knowable objects is almost irresistible; for the ground of the involuntary confusion of the required with the given absolute lies not so much in the carelessness of the individual as in the nature of our cognitive faculty.

It is allowable and unavoidable to add in thought an absolute subject, the unity of the ego, to inner phenomena; it is inadmissible to treat the Idea of the soul as a knowable thing.

That alone is knowable which we ourselves produce, hence only the form of representation.

Therefore "the knowable must itself bear the impress of the knower."

At definite points a check must be given it in order that something knowable may arise.

Objective cognition is confined within the circle of our representations; all that is knowable is phenomenon.

The beginning of the world lies outside the region of the knowable, atheism is no better grounded than the theistic hypothesis, and if Comte asserts that a blindly acting mechanism is less probable than a world-plan, he is conscious that he is expressing a mere conjecture which can never be raised to the rank of a scientific theory.

The data of philosophy arebesides an Unknowable Powerthe existence of knowable likenesses and differences among its manifestations, and a resulting segregation of the manifestations into those of subject and object.

The unconscious is not knowable; as soon as it is thought, it becomes conscious.

It was good to be venting all one's feeling on things so tangible and knowable as sweet peas.

He thought the boundary of the knowable wider than the generality do.

I am sure he knows the animals, one by one, and everything else knowable in our town, and has named them rightly as Adam did in Paradise, if he be not that ancestor himself.

The Government, knowing Jack's indomitable determination to learn everything knowable about the private life and character of a given germ, asked him to join several other men it is sending out to get information, provided of course the germ doesn't get them first.

47 examples of  knowable  in sentences