Sentence examples for act of knowing from inspiring English sources

For Maimonides, God is a pure knower described in Aristotelian terms as purely actualized intellect and as the act of knowing that knows itself.

In response, William frequently emphasizes that by the very same act of knowing or will by which God in fact knows or wills one thing, he could have known or willed something else (OO I, 780a; Teske 2007, 105).

Thus, when we say "God knows or wills X," we must distinguish the act of knowing or willing, which is identical with God and utterly the same in every possible situation, from the object X to which it is related.

So it's that act of knowing it for what it is, being able to recognize it in the moment, and then allowing it to be present.

Through readings of The Sacred Fount and The Ambassadors by James, Lord Jim and Nostromo by Conrad, and The Good Soldier and Parade's End by Ford, Armstrong examines how each writer dramatizes his understanding of the act of knowing.

It, therefore, is neither an instrument in the act of knowing, nor a mere sensory awareness.

This series of interactions involves a set of conscious acts: attention, perception, knowledge (i.e. acts of knowing, including memory).

Thinking about what you want is not a selfish act, but it is a fundamental part of knowing yourself.

Even if a student can act, the force of knowing the action might be wrong overturns the student's ability to act.

It was a Texas Democrat, Lyndon Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, knowing as he did so that he was sawing off one of the legs of his party's stool.

Luis Salamanca, a political science professor at Central University of Venezuela in Caracas, said Lopez's surrender was an "act of courage, knowing his imprisonment was unjust...