Sentence examples for cannot really know from inspiring English sources
People not in court cannot really know or understand the detail.
We cannot really know the effect that bullshit has on us, he thinks, until we have a clearer understanding of what it is.
But I learned in Vista that you cannot really know what overwhelming poverty is like until you have lived with the people suffering it.
The experience affirmed for me an old truism of travel: you cannot really know a city until people who live there invite you to dinner.
Thus most of the local officials who preside over computerized elections do not actually know how their systems are counting the votes, and when they officially certify that the election results are correct they do not and cannot really know them to be so.
It is not that the universe is so unstable so that it cannot be really known.
But also, and mainly, because its object, namely the universe, is always in a process of becoming and cannot be really known.
In other words: the cosmology is an eikōs muthos because it is about what happens to an eikōn before, and during, its creation, when everything is so fluid that it cannot be really known.
It is a novel largely told through negatives, obliquely, which is why phrases like "I do not really know" and "I cannot say" recur.
The most remarkable scenes in the book are when it begins to dawn on George through his acute fear of dying that something unlocatable is wrong, that he knows something about his wife that he cannot quite bear to let himself really know.
