Sentences with phrase «directly knowable»

The universe before the emergence of mind is offered as counter-instance to the proposition that anything must be directly knowable.

Such a state, by definition, is not directly knowable.

If Hartshorne means directly knowable then he has ruled out many states which many people believe to have existed.

A symbol is not a concrete medium for the knowledge of some universal, if not directly knowable reality — though this is the way in which most writers on symbolism from Plato and Plotinus to Urban, Coomaraswamy, and Jung have treated it.

Buber's I - Thou philosophy implies a radical reversal of the idealist and mystical attitude toward symbolism which sees the symbol as the concrete manifestation of some universal if not directly knowable reality.

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But once those principles — that the universe is lawful and predictable and knowable — are out and accepted, people can affirm them directly and don't necessarily need to see the foundational statements that got us there.»

Craighead's position rests on the two claims that the existence of nothing would be possible even if unknowable directly (PS 1:14 - 16; RTE 33 - 36) and, furthermore, that the existence of nothing is conceivable or knowable indirectly (PS 1:1 6f, 21 - 23).

This second quote speaks directly to their experience with pit bulls and they speak to both genetic and a reasonably knowable and appropriate early experience for the greyhounds: Our dogs are carefully selected for having exceptionally calm and stable temperaments.