Sentences with word «knower»

The causal determinist maintains that the future relative to any moment is fully determinate at that moment and is predictable on the ground of natural regularities by any perfect knower of the initial conditions and relevant laws.

Man as knower, rather than man as experimenter, is the centre of attention here.

Like Whitehead prior to Science and the Modern World, he brackets out the human knower from the world he studies.

Knowledge is the relation between knower...

As I have argued in my book Moral, Believing Animals, all human beings are believers, not knowers who know with certitude.

Now, I see no more difficulty in defining the perfect knower as one who can know all positive possible states but not the one totally negative possible state, than many theologians and philosophers would find with Hartshorne's defining perfect knowledge such that it excludes knowledge of what will happen in the future.

To begin with, an epistemology of the cross can not be used by knowers whose claims to objectivity are predicated on domination, for it harbors a deep suspicion of power - based knowledge claims and those who make them.

There are certainly other ways of speaking about the daily realities within which knowers come to know; but their concreteness, their «embodied - ness,» must never be lost sight of — something that happens when «experience» sounds more like a concept than an unavoidable part of the human condition.

Had I known you «great knowers of the universe» were holding all the absolute answers I would have given up on the faith that lead me to peace, happiness and compassion long ago.

To take just one example: «Instrumental knowers don't always understand what «thinking outside the box» really means in practice.

It refuses to recognize or share the global claims power - knowers make; instead it lives — often uncomfortably — with ambiguity and doubt.

When classical theists state that God is the being of all things, they could just as easily say that God is the thinker of all things, the eternal knower whose thinking is what we perceive as reality.

Classical theology has typically responded to this difficulty by alleging that, since all things other than God depend on God for their existence, their relations to the divine knower are constitutive of them rather than of God.

Bather I have had recourse to what Hartshorne calls the epistemic or idealistic argument.21 My two theses have been (1) that in a world of imperfect beings the truth that no omniscient knower exists would simply be unknowable — which can not possibly be so — and (2) that in such a world no fact could furnish evidence for God's nonexistence, hence God's nonexistence would be a purely negative fact, and so nonsense.

So it is not just that to be is to be known, but also that to be significant (as an utterance) or possible (as the extralinguistic referent of an utterance) is to be so for some conceivable knower.

Imagine what giving feedback is like for people who make meaning as socializing knowers.

Insulated by the wealth of possibilities the privileges of power confer, powerful knowers can ignore limits and resolve ambiguities.

This truth is known to all true truth knowers!

Only by remaining faithful to the requirements of relativity can we conceptualize God as the absolute knower, as omniscient.

There is a kind of never - look - back, don't - look - down single - mindedness at work here: reality is what power - knowers say it is.

In other words, faith's knowledge of God both «frames» other knowing and «frees» the justified knower to know all kinds of «ordinary» things.

(4) Finally, experiences are lived by particular knowers and, in that sense, have a «tailor - made» quality that invites attentiveness and resists generalization.

She calls it «strong objectivity,» and its particular strength rests of the participation of many knowers, beginning with the least favored, and requires a commitment to critical examination of the causes of beliefs, especially those that pass for «objective truths.

-- power - knowers read these as humiliations rather than as features of the daily human landscape that should require only sobriety, not courage, to acknowledge.

Allah is ever Knower, Wise.

Of course no human knower completely grasps or includes the entities he knows, but God fully incorporates and thus preserves all events as they occur.

And Allâh is Ever All ¬ Hearer, All ¬ Knower.

Reality is then what is represented in the final output of the unlimited community of such knowers.

I thank Michael Knower for his insightful «on - the - ground» report as a palliative care physician in Oregon, which affords him firsthand experience with the adverse effects of the law permitting assisted suicide.

I think that means I'm the official Knower - of - all - things - sprinkles, right?

«But for self - authoring knowers, that's a welcome invitation.

Finding that book club enhanced teachers» experience of themselves as what researchers on white, middle - class American women call «connected knowers» (Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, & Tarule, 1986) prompted us to consider the general potential of peer - led conversation in the professional development of teachers.

The author 3.0 is exquisite storyteller and a fine knower of the human soul.

«Past knowers,» historians, if you like, can be slower to come into line with the rest of us as we go on our merry way inventing new meanings for old letter clumps or even whole new clumpages (often where none was needed).

Objectivism, he demonstrates, places the would - be knower in an alienated, even an antagonistic position over and against the known world.

He provides the balanced picture again between knower and known, without an a priori, in going on to say: «The key to development is a mind capable of thinking in technological terms and grasping the fully human meaning of human activities, within the context of the holistic meaning of the individual's being.»

Can we not define the perfect knower as the one who can know any positive state?

In the middle of the Retreat you will enjoy a fire ceremony performed by a special Shaman, a great knower of the Mayan Calendar.