Sentences with phrase «on knowable»

Those decisions are actually the meaningful ones that are based on knowable attributes of the asset classes.

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.»

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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.

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.

Real ideas (by which I think he also meant realistic) contained at their core the notion that the universe is natural, objectively «out there», knowable but distinct, and informing views on sexuality, sex, marriage, death, etc..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Craighead's position rests on the two claims that the existence of nothing would be possible even if unknowable directly (PS 1:14 - 16; RTE 33 - 36) and, furthermore, that the existence of nothing is conceivable or knowable indirectly (PS 1:1 6f, 21 - 23).

Hence, in contrast to an empiricism that focuses on the particular, the unique, and the contingent, Hartshorne proposes a mode of philosophical analysis whose concern is that which is universal and necessary, and knowable apart from any particular experience.

While opinion varies on how much is implied by the rule of law, the minimalist opinion is that the law must be knowable and therefore prospective.

She also founded Knowable Research, a boutique research and consulting firm focused on bringing more social psychology into marketing research and product design.

s got dialogue and a knowable story, sure, but it also accordions time onto itself and visualizes God as a sexy naked lady who urinates liquid gold on your face right before you die.

Perhaps then by grounding investment decisions in something knowable and intrinsic to a business — even something as simple as its book value — you can do better than basing decisions on past price movements or predictions regarding how extrinsic factors may impact its business.

Advisors inquire about current / prospective financial information (to the extent knowable) and client ideas on risk and return.

It's never a good sign when the group's motivation or what's happening in the plot only becomes knowable thanks to on screen text that appears during the loading screen for each of the game's chapters.

Nuclear weapons have lent credence to the assumption on which the transcendental viewpoint is based; nature is structured and its structure is in some way knowable.

In the paintings I've been making in the last five years, the «Scenic Abstractions,» the attitude of a shape is indicated by its edges; how well it gets on with its neighbors and its surrounding environment is knowable by the texture of its borders — if it is rough or refined, feathered, blended, or hard - edged.

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.

Moreover, I'm not sure how much is knowable about past climates on short timescales.

He is cut from the same mold as the first Riverkeeper on the Hudson River, my friend John Cronin, and knows every detail (that is knowable) about Uniontown and the fledgling citizens» group, the Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice, that is attempting to deal with this environmental injustice.

What if Dane or a very knowable person on this site filed a petition for people all over the world to sign and after a suitable number signed, sent the petition to all heads of state and other politicians and major and alternate media, etc?

If we knew everything that is knowable, and were limited only by quantum uncertainty, I think it might be possible to derive a reasonably accurate description of climate behavior based strictly on mathematics.

It is widely assumed that climate change is knowable and the greatest threat to life on Earth in the 21st century.

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.

Science, at its core, is a method of inquiry, premised on the idea that objective phenomena are governed by consistent, knowable and experimentally provable rules.

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.