Sentences with phrase «knowable things»

For medieval men and women, knowable things have the strange dual status of being really existing images.

In thomistic terms, form - as - intellectual - species is a «likeness» of the knowable thing, ordered towards the same, and adequate to the knower's task of knowing.

Not exact matches

He expects that, just as the Internet made digital knowledge searchable and knowable (ask the Sony executives who've been hacked or Google, which has built a $ 364.4 billion market cap on this trend), the Internet of things will make physical information searchable and digital — with all the pros and cons that entails.

Facing fully real things, we render them knowable in the images of language, art, and mathematical science.

If a person thinks that nature is wholly corrupt, that there is no natural morality knowable by human reason, that grace completely supplants nature, that the basis of morality is the divine command and not the essences of things as created by God — and some Protestant theologians can plausibly be read as having said such things — then all bets are off.

There's but one thing moral knowledge is not, at least according to reigning opinion: it is not real knowledge, knowable with certainty, which imposes a claim precisely because it is knowable.

«In its notional assents... the mind contemplates its own creations instead of things,» writes Newman, because in them we leave the realm of the immediately knowable.

Whilst our spiritual intellect's knowing of physical things is said to need as object the uniquely knowable universal, the final object of our spiritual, intellectual knowing is proposed as the non-universal individual.

He takes Whitehead literally, or almost so, in two excellent articles discussing, among other things, the possible link between a concrete entity's being knowable and its being repeatable («Matter and Event,» in The concept of Matter, ed.

Thus almost all of the church's teachers have held that the existence of God is knowable, if not indeed demonstrable, even to reason, and that the dependence of all things on their primal cause is as definitely affirmed by the truest philosophy as by a theology whose source is the Christian revelation.

We have proof that the supernatural can not be known or knowable and that man can only explain the created things through and by created things.

I guess you are just wondering if there is one supreme thing behind them and behind all the knowable stuff.

Put them together and you get an agnostic atheist: one who does not thing it is ultimately knowable whether a god does or does not exist, but does not believe that one does,

«This actually has broken some ground and taken things, little secrets of the industry, and made them, if not completely transparent, at least a bit more knowable,» said John Freedman, a member of the study team.

How can you do the same for a supernatural being that is, among other things, everywhere and nowhere, immanent and transcendent, knowable and incomprehensible?

If I find a business that I determine will compound intrinsic value at 10 - 12 % per year and I can buy that business at a material discount to its current intrinsic value, why would I care what the S&P 500 does in 2014, not to mention trying to anticipate the Fed's next moves, where interest rates are headed, European problems, etc... The macro things are important, as Buffett says, but not knowable (or predictable).

Put that together with some TQC theory, and you end up with a powerful incentive to believe that with enough science, all things are knowable.

Once all things are knowable, war becomes a chess game where you can know the ending.

I think it is important that there is no such thing as climate sensitivity, not in the sense of a knowable result to doubling CO2.

Yea that's the thing, in a way Earth is infinitely complicated, yet, yet, it does operate following basic processes that are knowable and that have been studied and learned about for a long time.

That is, there is such a thing as the absolute truth on all questions and those truths are knowable, but everybody else is wrong about them and that's the truth.