The phrase "attaining knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of gaining or acquiring knowledge, often in educational or philosophical contexts.
Example: "The primary goal of education is not just to pass exams, but to focus on attaining knowledge that will benefit students throughout their lives."
Alternatives: "gaining knowledge" or "acquiring knowledge".
This is a strong indication that Locke thinks issues about language were of considerable importance in attaining knowledge.
He tried to achieve this by a systematic analysis of the mental phenomena involved in attaining knowledge and in drawing inferences.
After all, it will be contended, scientific method is the only reliable and indubitably successful and self-correcting method of attaining knowledge (pure mathematics perhaps excepted).
In itself, it does not mean that we are capable of attaining knowledge, for there might not be any impressions that one can be confident in assenting to.
The Bible, or parts of it, might be considered testimony about God, and accordingly as one possible way of attaining knowledge of God.
Vives was pessimistic about the possibility of attaining knowledge as understood in Aristotelian terms; and his thought anticipates the moderate skepticism of early modern philosophers such as Francisco Sanches (1551 1623) and Pierre Gassendi (1592 1655).
"To attain knowledge, add things every day.
Through self-knowledge, the devout mystic strives to attain knowledge of God Himself.
This trend in turn produced a growing distrust of the power of human beings to attain knowledge of the ultimate basis of natural phenomena.
"The way you attain knowledge," Hester once observed, in what amounted to his credo, "is to go to college, get an education, start an argument, take either side, and then put your money in".
The success of Newton, in particular, in capturing in a few mathematical equations the laws that govern the motions of the planets, gave great impetus to a growing faith in the human capacity to attain knowledge.
