Sentences with phrase «not knowable»

The old climate framework failed because it would have imposed substantial costs associated with climate mitigation policies on developed nations today in exchange for climate benefits far off in the future — benefits whose attributes, magnitude, timing, and distribution are not knowable with certainty.

The exact date when this great event takes place is not knowable — the data isn't good enough — but it'll happen soon.

The answer is «not knowable at this time» seems to be a conclusion which is frequently unacceptable, but is the only correct conclusion given the state of the data.

But all air molecules do move, where they move and at what velocity vector is not knowable, an air molecule might stay in one place, but it's not likely.

I don't think they are wrong, I just think they don't know the answers, as in «not knowable» with the current data set.

Face it, somethings are not knowable in simple straightforward terms, and the planet's climate, considering the huge number of variables and the timespan and sparse data sets for such a huge system is a perfect example of that kind of «impossible to summarize in a single sentence» scenario that you seem to think it «should» be.

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).

Not knowable, but forever provocative.

The approach allows researchers to «actually come up with a valid estimate of the rate of false convictions — knowing something that people say [in criminal justice] is not knowable,» says study author Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School and editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. - focused exoneration database.

Hence it can not require us to know a law that has not yet been made and is not knowable until it is made.

Moreover, what is unnecessary in hindsight is not knowable in advance.

As Bohm put it: «We are actually contributing to the world, and if the world is infinite in its depth, then the essence is not knowable.

But future contingencies, he insisted, are not knowable if God is truly personal.

If it is the sensed individual, then, since only form is knowable, that which is ontologically most basic is not knowable.

They are extraordinary claims of «knowing something» that others can state, and rightly so, are NOT knowable.

So in principle, if we fiddle with our inflation assumptions (from taking the guidance targets of the relevant central bank) we are making «bets» on inflation that are not knowable.

Bond funds don't have a maturity date, so their returns aren't knowable in advance, but the principle is the same.

It has a plethora of systems, but the magnitude of these aren't knowable unless you get through the first few hours of the game.

Not exact matches

Understanding Coke or Wrigley is knowable... but we have never bought a business or not bought a business because of any macro feeling of any kind... We don't want to pass up the chance to do something intelligent because of some prediction about something that we're no good at anyway.»

Even worse, some of the variables are not controllable, or even knowable.

Not only that, but starting point valuations are knowable, unlike future economic growth.

Good intentions for proximate and ultimate ends can be poisoned by knowable bad consequences, even when they are not intended.

Events in the future may or may not be, but if they are knowable then they are determined and there is no free will.

Realism and anti-realism contain fundamentally different understandings about what is knowable and what is not, what can be change and what can not, and mankind's place in creation.

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.

If he believes his eyes he is deceived, for the God is not immediately knowable.

Every determination of his nature which makes the God immediately knowable is indeed a milestone on the way of approximation, but one which marks an increase instead of a decrease in the distance; it does not measure toward the Paradox but away from it, back past Socrates and the Socratic ignorance.

God could make his will / plan as knowable as chemistry and math (since he made chemistry and math as knowable as he made chemistry and math), but he doesn't, and so there's no way to determine what is or is not his will / plan so religions and cults and private individuals continue to debate which books (written by men) are or are not part of his plan or will.

You could be an agnostic atheist, meaning you don't think that the existence of gods is knowable, but you don't choose to believe in one without further proof.

Not because it was knowable, or even verifiable, but because it made them feel better to believe it.

God's love is so huge, but not truly and deeply knowable apart from the Cross.

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.»

This being the case, how can we both maintain that God has complete and perfect knowledge of everything knowable, including beings other than Himself, and still hold that God is not qualified to any degree by relations to other beings?

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.

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.

Only man can perform this act of setting at a distance because only man has a «world» — an unbroken continuum which includes not only all that he and other men know and experience but all that is knowable now and in the future.

What is revealed is not anything knowable; what is revealed is the ultimate mystery.

The fact is that Christian schools are established on the premise that the truth is knowable and known — not completely or exhaustively, of course, but insofar as reason is able to discern and God has revealed.

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

An agnostic atheist would take the stance that although they currently don't believe in God and don't think there is any evidence about such an existence, they don't completely rule out the possibility of God because they don't think the question is fully knowable.

The ground of freedom is the abyss of the mystery which can never be conceived as something not yet known but knowable in future, but which is the primeval fact of our transcendental knowledge and freedom.

Griffin does not avail himself of the distinction proposed by Pailin, whereby God's personal attributes are those values which God has in fact chosen for all occasions in this actual world, in either case, however, such personal attributes would be knowable in the same way that his metaphysical attributes are, namely, by way of philosophical inquiry.

I am religious but do not need to destroy, ignore, or to push to aside clearly knowable scientific facts.

If it is not, then the distinction of possible and actual is not that of indefinite and definite; rather the possible is the fully - knowable, the actual the only - partially - knowable.

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.

For Hartshorne, all such terms as «causality,» «matter,» «mind,» «private,» «knowable,» «ordered,» «good,» «evil,» «the past,» and «certainty,» can not be understood as having any clear, unparadoxical meaning apart from God as depicted by neoclassical metaphysics.

It may not even be knowable in principle.

One can not prove anything by assuming the logical coherence of the classical idea of an ens realissimum or unsurpassable actuality, for this coherence is in no way known or knowable.

The God who does not allow himself to be objectified, because only in the immediate command of conscience is he God, clearly specifies that he is knowable exclusively in the cry of the poor and the weak who seek justice.»