Sentence examples for any certain knowledge from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, Carneades' noncommittal attitude was rooted in his denial that there exists any certain knowledge, either of the senses or of the intellect.

It was questioned, for example, whether one could gain any certain knowledge in metaphysics (the philosophical study of the basic nature, structure, or elements of reality) or in the sciences.

Kant had been challenged — awoken from his dogmatic slumber, as he said — by the empiricist David Hume's assertion that we could never infer any certain knowledge about, for instance, laws of causality, because we are limited to knowing what our senses can learn about the world at any given moment.

While the first three prescribe how to act in the absence of any certain knowledge of good and evil (including the much-criticized deference to the laws and customs of his country), the fourth rule holds out the possibility of cultivating his reason so as to arrive at knowledge of the truth.

Referring to the viscous properties of passive eye muscles, he noted that "there seems little doubt that the value chosen for this viscosity will have a considerable effect on a model's behavior and our lack of any certain knowledge of its properties is certainly a source of indeterminacy in any model".

A limitation of the study is that it does not give us any certain knowledge about the actual behaviour of the physicians.

Most hunters, Mr. Chapel said, "do have a certain knowledge of what's required of them" in such potentially hazardous circumstances and do not simply blaze away.

It takes a certain knowledge and sophistication about how the big-dollar centers operate.

Critical realists deny that we have any objective or certain knowledge of the world, and accept the possibility of alternative valid accounts of any phenomenon.

Although at any one time certain knowledge subsets may be deemed dispensable for learning purposes, a continuous expansion of knowledge must imply a comparable expansion of knowledge essential for maintenance of professional competence [ 28].

We do not, at any time, argue that certain knowledge should be forbidden on the grounds that it might be used improperly.