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Knowable

Knowable meaning

Capable of being known, understood or comprehended.

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They believe they speak the mathematically precise language of the knowable universe.

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what’s important and knowable.

Elections officials also cautioned that results for some races might not be knowable on election night because of expected tabulation delays.

If the act of writing makes the human experience that much more knowable then we must mark this moment.

The number is not knowable because human behaviour, as war, cannot be foretold.

While asking the right question, it would seem like the answer is knowable.

Also note: This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

First, he logically separates the Platonic world of constant change Plato's Divided Line describes the four Platonic worlds from the formally knowable world of momentarily fixed physical objects.

In several dialogues, most notably the Republic, Socrates inverts the common man's intuition about what is knowable and what is real.

Judgments and propositions A judgment is something that is knowable, that is, an object of knowledge.

Once the idea of a universal truth about the good, knowable by human reason, is lost, inevitably the notion of conscience also changes.

Originally coining the term in 1869, Huxley elaborated on ' agnosticism ' in 1889 to frame the nature of claims in terms of what is knowable and what is not.

Our ways of being affected are alone knowable.

Popper considered historicism to be the theory that history develops inexorably and necessarily according to knowable general laws towards a determinate end.

Rand argued that neither is possible because the senses provide the material of knowledge while conceptual processing is also needed to establish knowable propositions.

Schopenhauer begins by arguing that Kant's demarcation between external objects, knowable only as phenomena, and the Thing in Itself of noumenon, contains a significant omission.

Socrates sums up this reversal by remarking that if anyone tries to tell them the complex is knowable and expressable while the element is the opposite, 'we had better not listen to him' (205e).

Such initial position is not knowable or controllable by the experimenter, so there is an appearance of randomness in the pattern of detection.

The allegory of the cave (begins Republic 7.514a) is a paradoxical analogy wherein Socrates argues that the invisible world is the most intelligible ("noeton") and that the visible world ("(h)oraton") is the least knowable, and the most obscure.

The only knowable reality is the represented image of an external object.