Sentences with phrase «of knowable»

Projecting into the future with expected or projected perturbations of knowable parameters (temps, climate cycles, etc) might be done comparing the known statistical probabilities from historic data.

With this criticism: ``... setting mitigation policy goals that can not and will not be met, either because they are aiming beyond the scope of the knowable and do - able or because national political interests make them unrealistic and unattainable, is itself in practice less ethical than setting goals that are lower, but more readily achievable.»

Put more crudely, setting mitigation policy goals that can not and will not be met, either because they are aiming beyond the scope of the knowable and do - able or because national political interests make them unrealistic and unattainable, is itself in practice less ethical than setting goals that are lower, but more readily achievable.

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.

He has previously published an interview / conversation with the writer Sarah Kessler in the online journal Triple Canopy and is currently working on another with Arkady Plotnitsky, author of The Knowable and The Unknowable and other writings on the relationships among literature, philosophy, and science.

Their vibratory incandescence creates an analogy to the rhythmic substructure of a knowable nature.

Finally, all of these poets write within a culture in which physical science has replaced metaphysics as the model of the knowable.

But if the past is the domain of facts over which I have no power, it is also the domain of knowable facts.

While German philosophers tended toward various forms of nihilism after Kant, «it was Husserl's great merit,» wrote Hilda Graef, Stein's biographer, «to have dispelled these mists of relativistic agnosticism by reaffirming the two old truths: the existence of objective truth and the existence of a knowable world in which we live.»

«Was it the Sumerian god Enki... etc. = > it points to man knowing there is something rather than nothing behind the boundaries of the knowable.

He defines the real in terms of the knowable.

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.

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.»

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.

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

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

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

That very truth is clear when we read the flood story as false because of current knowable geology which is limited to known physical laws.

The idea is that God is knowable and a person, or a personality or a soul (or as some would insist, a soul - of - souls).

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

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.

The reader is encouraged to take that seriously, to weigh the statements in this book against research and observations on the knowable world, and to consider them in relation to the thousands of other religions from throughout history that also profess with absolute certainty to be the one «Truth.»

Except that in the case of an actual God, that actual God actually is able to speak back to his creations in a way that is knowable, that is discernible.

«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.

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.

As distinguished from people holding to pacifism or the «holy war,» people holding to the just war tradition claim to make decisions on the empirically knowable facts of the case.

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.

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.

Part of it is knowable, but ultimately it will go off beyond anything we can know.

The word of the teaching loses its religious character as soon as it is cut loose from its connection with the life of the founder and his disciples and recast into an independently knowable and thoroughly impersonal principle.

He is of course correct about so much, that which is knowable.

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.

But neither of them, any more than Tocqueville a few decades later, proposed an alternative theory in which freedom would be answerable to a fully knowable Order or the right could be logically derived from The Good.

Associated now with the self in a manner that constitutes the knowable person, this blob deserves the dignity of a Latin name.

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.

No serious scientist out there actually believes that they've learned all that is knowable within their field of study, and that they have all the answers, like some religious folks seem to insist upon.

When the apostle Paul found himself at the foot of a pagan altar to an «unknown god» he used it as an opportunity to proclaim his God — the God that he knew personally and the God that made Himself knowable in Jesus Christ.

In his long career as a philosopher at the University of Southern California, he earned a reputation for being perhaps the foremost scholar on Edmund Husserl, whose direct realism argues, counter to the constructivism of Immanuel Kant, that there is indeed an objective reality that is at least partially knowable via the mind.

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.

Your faith and Sagan's faith are the same in your belief that what is outside today's boundaries or limits of science will someday be knowable by man.

For Hartshorne, reality is (in principle) knowable through and though, so of course the unknowable is unreal.

In contrast, the presence of feeling is in principle knowable, unless prehension as essentially «feeling of feeling» is an absurdity.

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.