Sentences with phrase «presumed knowledge»

«To otherwise permit the State of Oregon or any other governmental body to restrict access to the laws that govern all of us would make a mockery of the legal doctrine that all persons have presumed knowledge of the law,» he said in April.

«The background is that the skeptics keep referring back to it and I'd like to prove that it is a schematic and it isn't based on real data, but on presumed knowledge at some point around the late 1980s.

I said that one should be skeptical of claims that contradict one's beliefs (especially one's presumed knowledge).

This is partly because these labels operate on presumed knowledge.

What makes John Grisham such a successful author brand is the presumed knowledge that all his books offer gripping court - room drama with a bit of crime and suspense.

Anyone who has not read it should start here because most of the essays in the book presume knowledge of it.

For scientists to presume any knowledge of regularities and causal relations in nature they must presuppose a measure of transcendence over its processes.

«I think it is very sad that you believe it is acceptable to pretend to know things that you can not know — to think that is how you live your life is messed up to say the least — I hope you realize that to presume knowledge where one has only pious hope is a species of evil.»

«It is time we realized that to presume knowledge where one has only pious hope is a species of evil.»

In the words of Sam Harris: «It is time that we realize that to presume knowledge where one has only pious hope is a species of evil.»

Each math course, for instance, presumes knowledge developed in previous courses, and other humanities fields have a graduated curriculum.

That doesn't mean that there isn't one, but it does mean that the noise is much larger than this «signal», and any attempt to remove the signal to extract the noise presumes a knowledge of the noise and signal that a) nobody has; and b) to the extent that it is input in the form of assumptions, begs all questions and proves nothing.

Not exact matches

Making salaries public knowledge can motivate employees to work harder, presuming people are paid on merit.

Doesn't that presume that there is more knowledge to be had?

«Asking for any Christian to explain everything their God does is a weak argument, because it presumes that the Christian has perfect knowledge of everything.»

MyMainMan, one other point I'd like to make: If you're going to support Sagan's claim that athiests must presume to have much more knowledge than the rest of us, then the exact same must apply to Theists (those who believe in God).

Divine knowledge of the world presumes that God feels what everything else feels, so much so that, to use words Hartshorne does not, we are rivulets poured into the ocean of God's encompassing feeling.

And again, Paul writes to churches around the whole region and his writings presume they have at least a working knowledge of Christ's death and resurrection.

I don't necessarily defend a lack of knowledge about other religions (I scored 15 out of 15 on Pew's sample quiz on their site), but neither do I see it as relevant to compare the (implied) question «Do you identify with A religion (or faith in God)» with «what is your general knowledge about ALL religions», and presume this is going to generate a meaningful result.

Essentially, this is a clash between a world - view which is grounded in an ongoing gracious act of creation, and a world - view which presumes a static order of reality from which the individual has become estranged through ignorance, and to which he may return through recollection and self - knowledge.

Our claim that we know God directly in experience can be made without presuming that this knowledge is easily had, or ever more than dimly possessed.

Both authors presume our intimate knowledge of pain and loss, but they assert that far better things await us, joys we can scarcely imagine.

He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them from presuming to act (on it).

There is only one point in the New Testament, as far as I know, at which the gospel is preached to those entirely lacking in knowledge of the scriptures (most of the gentiles to whom Paul preached were among the sympathizers of the synagogue, so Paul could presume what George Lindbeck calls «biblical literacy»), and that is Paul's famous address on the Areopagus.

The Copernican revolution has thus led us by steps to the point where God (presuming for the moment that we can still use this word in a meaningful way) must be much greater than the pre-Copernicans ever imagined, while on the other hand man, in spite of the recent rapid expanse of his knowledge and technology, appears to have been reduced to an infinitesimal role in space.

Therefore, initiation into the knowledge of the past presumes willingness to be exposed to judgment in order to know whether one has it right or wrong.

As a pre-Cartesian thinker he did not presume that the act of knowledge involves a singular thinking subject that surveys an external world of extended stuff.

Most of the books I can think of either presume a huge level of existing knowledge or don't go into nearly enough depth.

Two researchers — Robert McIntyre, an MIT graduate, and Gregory M. Fahy, PhD., 21st Century Medicine (21CM) Chief Scientific Officer, have developed a method for scanning a preserved brain's connectome (the 150 trillion microscopic synaptic connections presumed to encode all of a person's knowledge).

In general, terms and acronyms should be defined or explained on first instance in an article so as to not presume prior knowledge on the part of the readers.

Results: The current body of scientific knowledge indicates that the PEBO is only presumed true.

A child is presumed missing, but the audience, and another child, share the terrible knowledge that he is not.

The instructions are in desperate need of a copy editor, and some puzzles presume a lot of knowledge.

Even simple texts, like those on reading tests, are filled with gaps — presumed domain knowledge — that the writer assumes the reader knows.

Indeed, while elements of Common Core's ELA standards emphasize «close reading» and «finding evidence» and imply the teaching of reading skills in a manner disconnected from the knowledge embedded in and presumed by the assigned texts, other parts of Common Core firmly reiterate the premise that «knowledge is intimately linked to reading comprehension ability» (see Appendix A, p. 4).

«The temerity and ignorance of those soulless SOB's (sic) presuming to know better than the NC Charter School Advisory Board with its diversity of knowledge and experience in this area.

Without a doubt, writing a professional essay presumes having appropriate writing skills and background knowledge.

We've been doing this for many years, and we've heard some interesting explanations and oddball theories for causes of loss, but this ranks high on the list of answers we sort of presumed were common knowledge.

Using knowledge of your investment risk tolerance, we also presume that you have decided upon an appropriate asset allocation across the primary cash, bond, and stock asset classes.

To my knowledge, this was the first time American Express had done a clawback on such a large scale and showed that American Express was not afraid to take large - scale action against presumed «travel hackers.»

As a sequel, the game goes off on its own, with new characters and a new direction for the story — so knowledge of the previous game isn't required but it is highly recommended as various people will pop up from the original game and it presumes you already know who they are.

Here the mechanism of knowledge transmission, the theatrical space with its presumed audience and act of storytelling, is the enduring sign of consciously devised civilization.

In light of an apparent de-centralisation of knowledge structures, the presumed publishing group pun of Random House aims for a «poetic and material reconstruction» via the intimacy of works by emerging and established artist through technologies and beyond.

The discussion Chris Mooney's Washington Post piece has rekindled about why the public «doesn't get it» about science, and your question, «What if the public had perfect climate change information,» both presume there is some ideal «It» to «get»... some «perfect» knowledge, some unassailable truth.

In other words, even in the worst - case scenario, even if the issue is not just unavoidably but hopelessly political, you are an excellent example of how someone has promoted professional interests and also the political interests of others, while still (I presume) giving priority to good engineering knowledge.

I presume siad mixing is the slow deep ocean mixing with an overturning rate of ~ 1 - 2ky, according to my current knowledge, please confirm or correct me.

(Müller, Höhne, Ellermann, 2009) Although there are interesting philosophical questions about when a nation should be presumed to have had enough knowledge about likely climate change harm to make them responsible for past emissions, even if the developed nations are only assumed to have responsibility after 1990, the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wrote its first report to the world concluding that climate change was a huge threat, the developed nations still are responsible for the vast majority of the historical emissions since 1990.

Of course, it is utterly false to suggest that I (or anyone else to my knowledge) has suggested that Dyson should be «presumed to be owned by the evil fossil fuel conspiracy».

Then, we presume, law students became too expensive and so the vogue of outsourcing to «editorial» companies with no knowledge of legal content raised its head as the next best cost saving option.

1898)(«no one can obtain the exclusive right to publish the laws of a state»)(Harlan, J., sitting by designation); Nash v. Lathrop, 142 Mass. 29, 6 N.E. 559 (Mass. 1886)(«Every citizen is presumed to know the law thus declared, and it needs no argument to show that justice requires that all should have free access to the opinions, and that it is against sound public policy to prevent this, or to suppress and keep from the earliest knowledge of the public the statutes or the decisions and opinions of the justices.»).