Sentence examples for against knowledge from inspiring English sources

It is another example of the bias against knowledge".

Bishop saw in her students' resistance evidence of a bias against knowledge in favor of feeling: "They mostly seem to think that poetry — to read or to write — is a snap — one just has to feel — & not for very long, either".

Beliefs about whether sensations correspond to an actually existing thing must be tested against knowledge of the world, as informed by Epicurean theory.

A 'sceptical attitude' against knowledge is coherent with the definition of a SEF given above, while a 'dogmatic attitude' is obviously less useful, and a paradigm-critical hard core is supposed to be more coherent than a paradigmatic core.

Passionate community development workers are better identified through volunteering services as against knowledge based experts who appear extremely fat in the midst of the poor they are supposed to serve.

"If I can remove even one dollar of ill-gained income from a poisonous industry which acts to suppress scientific and historic understanding, then whatever personal cost I suffer will be justified [and] it will be one less dollar spent in the war against knowledge," he wrote.

They would have to calculate the benefits and losses, for instance, of intense exchange early on against the knowledge of their approaching annihilation, and against the demands of all the other tasks that needed doing.

But note that this definition of 'physical facts' begs the question against an objection that has been raised against the knowledge argument (see Section 4.2 below).

145e-147c is not against defining knowledge by examples of objects of knowledge; it is against defining knowledge by examples of kinds of knowledge.

Roberto Rodriguez, writing on Common Dreams, described the Tucson Unified School District's ongoing appeal of the state's non-compliance ruling against it "reminiscent of the 1500s-era Inquisition" and "a war against Indigenous Knowledge".

The story has clearly appeared as a political struggle, pitting morally opposed forces against each other: disinterested knowledge against interested knowledge - research against spying and the science of archaeology, with little immediately practical application, against the science of geology, so useful to national governments seeking expansion of wealth and power.