This means that it is concerned with the universal characteristics which belong to the system of knowable reality as such, and the principles of its organisation in their full universality.
First Philosophy, then, is the study of "What Is simply as such," the universal principles of structure without which there could be no ordered system of knowable objects.
Not only must words have a fixed and knowable meaning; but also, no important meaning should be without its word: that is, there should be a name for everything which we have often to make assertions about.
Concrete general names (and the meaning of abstract names depends on the concrete) should have a fixed and knowable connotation.
Assertions in propositions about those unknowable entities (nouemena) which are the hidden causes of phenomena, are made, indeed, only in virtue of the knowable phenomena.
The Conditioned and Unconditioned, the Knowable and Unknowable are not true contradictions.
On the contrary, the elements are more knowable than the compound.
Ens which alone (according to him) is knowable, and the perpetual flux of Fientia which is not knowableat all, but is only matter of opinion or guess-work.
If you declare an object to be absolute, you declare it to be neither known nor knowable by us: if it be announced as known or knowable by us, it is thereby implied at the same time not to be absolute.
The Platonic Ideas, eternal and unchangeable, are finally opposed to Kratylus as the only objects truly knowable and nameable--and therefore as the only conditions under which right naming can be realised.
Side-note: If Ideas exist, they cannot be knowable by us.
Unum having been declared to be Non-Ens, is (like Non-Ens) neither knowable nor nameable.
Impossible 65 If Ideas exist, they cannot beknowable by us.
Man is more knowablethan nature, and is the key to nature; such is Hegel's position, crudely stated.
Material bodies are invisible and intangible; they are knowable only through their mental duplicates.
He professes to demonstrate that nothing exists: that if anything exist, it is unknowable; and granting it even to exist and to be knowable by any one man, he could never communicate it to others.
It is a still more strange perversion to erect this knowable emptiness into a criterion of knowledge, and to call the latter phenomenal by reference to it.
But if science is to control the knowable world, he generously leaves the remainder for religion.
The Pythagoreans were therefore right when they made number the essence of the knowable world, and Plato was right when he said harmony was the first condition of the highest good.
Essences and values alone are knowable and fixed and amenable to science.
Let us suppose, by way of hypothesis, the knowable to be entirely and absolutely homogeneous.
The whole body of the knowable is formed from an agglomeration of extremely varied elements, amongst which it is easy to distinguish a large number of divisions.
Consequently, if we maintain the above distinction as a principle of classification for all knowable phenomena, we shall be obliged to assign the same position to ideas as to sensations.
The State, in their view, has the sole right and the sole power to organize everything, from industry to worship, and there is no higher will than that of the community known to or knowable by man.
The borders of the known and the knowable are fringed with mystery, and all the data of knowledge recede into it by longer or shorter pathways.
He does not go beyond that, to the origin of all things; for it is one of his cardinal principles that behind the Knowable there is dimly visible a something not only unknown but unknowable.
The functions of reason through which nature is rendered a knowable object cannot be derived from experience, for they are necessary to the existence of experience.
When the prism is withdrawn, the object returns to its primal unity, no longer distinguishable by the mind, yet clearly knowable by that high power of spiritual discernment, of illumination, which is above the mind.
But its tendency is a knowable matter, what it will do under certain circumstances.
For both rest upon a separation of moral ideas and feelings from knowable facts of life, man and the world.
A thing is known in itself when it is known by the proper species adequate to the knowable object; as when the eye sees a man through the image of a man.
Now the first thing conceived by the intellect is being; because everything is knowable only inasmuch as it is in actuality.
But what is locally distant exists actually, and is knowable in itself.
Which thus appears--Everything is knowable according to its actuality.
Hence the knowable object in its mode of signification exists before science, but if the same object is considered in act, then it is simultaneous with science in act; for the object known is nothing as such unless it is known.
The future, which is distant in time, does not actually exist, and therefore is not knowable in itself, because so far as a thing falls short of being, so far does it fall short of being knowable.
For as things which are like one and the same thing are like to each other, the cognitive faculty can be assimilated to any knowable object in two ways.
This applies to science and its object; for the object knowable is considered as a potentiality, and the science as a habit, or as an act.
Further, in relative things which are not simultaneous in nature, one can exist without the other; as a thing knowable can exist without the knowledge of it, as the Philosopher says (Praedic.
Now a thing is knowablein the degree in which it is; hence since this is the essence of evil that it is the privation of good, by the fact that God knows good things, He knows evil things also; as by light is known darkness.
I answer that, Everything isknowable so far as it is in act, and not, so far as it is in potentiality (Metaph.
Faith is a kind of knowledge, inasmuch as the intellect is determined by faith to someknowable object.
For everything is knowable according to the mode of its own actuality; since a thing is not known according as it is in potentiality, but in so far as it is in actuality, as said in Metaph.
The natural precepts were given in order to recall to the minds of men the laws knowable through reason which had become obscured through passion, custom or example.
The data of philosophy are--besides an Unknowable Power--the existence of knowable likenesses and differences among its manifestations, and a resulting segregation of the manifestations into those of subject and object.
It is allowable and unavoidable to add in thought an absolute subject, the unity of the ego, to inner phenomena;[1] it is inadmissible to treat the Idea of the soul as a knowable thing.
At definite points a check must be given it in order that something knowable may arise.
That alone is knowable which we ourselves produce, hence only the form of representation.
Whatever is to be knowable must be given as a real in sensuous intuition.
Therefore "the knowable must itself bear the impress of the knower.
Objective cognition is confined within the circle of our representations; all that is knowable is phenomenon.
Be it a single object or a whole universe, any account which begins with it in a concrete form and leaves off with it in a concrete form is incomplete, since there remains an era of itsknowable existence undescribed and unexplained.
He held theknowable is the proper sphere of man's knowledge or philosophy, and the unknowable the legitimate domain of God and religion.
The acorn undergoes a series of changes; these are knowableonly in reference to the fixed form of the oak which is the same in the entire oak species in spite of the numerical diversity of trees.
In Kant as everybody knows the two strains came together; and the theme of the formation of the knowable world by means of a thought that operated exclusively through the human knower became explicit.
Stick to theknowable things, and don't stick at the unknowable; that is my law and my gospel.
So religion is in the knowable things not in the unknowable; there such men as you, lad, must find it.
That the ultimate Reality isknowable through a supersensual state of consciousness.
The knowable is a case of affirmation and the non-existent being knowable, is a case of affirmation.
Religion is the recognition and acceptance of all knowable phenomena of human life; in these man finds his God, God reveals himself to man.
Holy saints and the knowers of the knowable one like you, are never moved by joy or grief; but remain untouched by them, as the lotuses remain intact in the water.
Those knowing the knowable one are called as saints; but those who slighting the meditation of the soul, betake themselves to the adoration of idols, are said to liken little boys playing with their dolls.
The unknown God is said to be knowable and obtainable by yoga only).
Vasishtha related:--In this manner did these knowers of the knowable God, continue in their mutual conversation on spiritual matters, until the third watch of the day in that forest.
If you can combine the knower, knowable and the knowledge (i.
A man sees in his dream all that he has seen or heard or thought of at any time, and the whole world being comprised in the state of dreaming, the living soul becomes the knower of all that is knowable in his dream.
Say, were you awakened in your inmost soul, and set at large beyond the region of error and darkness; say, have you known the knowable one, and seen what is to be seen?
The gross desire that germinates in its wishes, which become the causes of the regeneration of men in some form or other, is known by the name of mind; and which becomes altogether extinct in men, knowing the truly knowable one.
When you are acquainted with the knowledge of the knowable soul, then will your soul find its refuge in eternal soul of Hari, who absorbs all souls in him.
Just as monism, or naturalism, embraces the totality of science, so on our principles the idea of nature comprises the whole scientifically knowable world.
The two knowable attributes or inalienable properties of substance, without which it is unthinkable, were described by Spinoza as extension and thought; we speak of them as matter and force.
The sense world (mundus sensibilis) lies open to our senses and our intellect, and is empirically knowable within certain limits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knowable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
