Sentences with phrase «object of knowledge»

These things, he said, are properly not objects of knowledge at all.

Any presence which the spiritual in art evokes is something which we are unable to see in its entirety, something we are unable to make into an immediate object of our knowledge.

The archetypes of all things merely possible are present in the Divine Intellect from eternity, not that they exist, but that they are present to God as objects of knowledge.

If this were not the case, then these units of consciousness would change, for added to the constitution of the drop taken from the other objects of knowledge there would have to be the knowledge of itself as distinguished from the knowledge of its objects.

The consequence of this medieval view is that objects of knowledge seem simultaneously real and unreal.

In whatever way, it is through our material conditions, and through the flesh that we imagine to be an impermeable boundary of self, the solid object of knowledge and possession, or an alien substance, that Advent comes.

(Aristotle, whose gods were in no way dependent upon objects of knowledge other than themselves, will not be disturbed by such a conclusion, but for Plato the denial of divine providence was intolerable.)

Speaking of Locke's assumption that ideas are the proper objects of knowledge, Thomas Reid had said that he had no argument.

The destruction of tactile documents, from the legendary burning of the Library of Alexandria to the recent loss of museum artefacts in Syria to civil war, are examples of how physical objects of knowledge and information can be lost, but the intangible online one is just as prone.

On reflection we can see that the above argument for the internal relatedness of God as cognitive subject presupposes that there are alternative possibilities for God, at least with respect to what creatures, or what states of creatures, He has as objects of knowledge.

If it is rebutted that we need not speak of the experience as the object of knowledge of this reflexive awareness, then this view boils down to a recommendation for a radical shift in our understanding of what we mean when we speak of an «awareness of» or «knowledge of» something, a shift which is unwarranted.

God is not an object of knowledge.

Planets, mountains, elements are objects of knowledge.

I Let us follow John Wilcox in defining temporalistic or process theism as any theism which portrays God as an experiencing subject, the knower of temporal processes, whose knowledge is itself subject to growth, expanding along with the growth in temporal reality which is the object of that knowledge (2:295 a).

Such stable unchanging self identity is an indispensable condition for the objects of knowledge, episteme, in the strict sense, as distinguished from the contingent, evanescent objects of opinion, doxa, the things which are ever becoming and never really are, to use the language of Plato's Timaeus (Tim.

It is the soul's kinship with the eternal and unchanging Forms, the objects of its knowledge, that is advanced as one of the preliminary arguments in that dialogue for immortality, In the use of bodily senses the soul touches change, so that the «world spins around her,» but when she returns into herself she enters into the other world, «the region of purity, and eternity, and immortality, and unchangeableness, which are her kindred...»

They could not be objects of our knowledge, and even worse, from Plato's point of view, the gods who knew them would not know its, or anything in the world below.

This means that God, who is love (1Jn 4,8), loves all men as himself, and wishes to give himself to them as the object of their knowledge and love.

Such freedom of diversification for the sake of the community leads to the confluence of all sciences into a single natural science of man the knower and man the object of knowledge.

The artwork of Laura Lima takes the body as its starting point, and integrates it as a material potential and as an object of knowledge and sensibility, as just another element in the configuration of the work in space.

Hence the slow displacement from the expression of withdrawal — as in Bram van Velde's work — to a distanced analysis of painting by the painter as a predetermined code / language, as an object of knowledge, in Supports / Surfaces» work.