Sentence examples for contingent knowledge from inspiring English sources

Brower thinks the problem can be defused by observing that God is the cause of the contingent entities on which his contingent knowledge depends.

Compassion supposes knowledge, and Origen appears to have been untroubled by the difficulties that arise from the ascription of contingent knowledge to an eternal being.

On this externalist model, as on the Belief Model, there nothing internal to God and intrinsic to him in virtue of which he possesses contingent knowledge, and thus nothing contingent in him to compromise his simplicity.

While we distinguish the certain knowledge we may have of mathematical entities from the contingent knowledge of material objects, Russell says that there are certain "neat" features of matter that are just too tidy to have turned out by accident.

If God always knows the tenseless correlates of these truths — e.g., that on March 27 , 2002 it is the case that I tenselessly-finish the article on March 28 , 2002— then the sheer passage of time accounts for all changes in His contingent knowledge.

Given a heteroplasmy measurement from sampling h m, accurate preimplantation diagnosis is contingent on knowledge of the distribution P (h | h m ), that is, the probability that the embryonic heteroplasmy is h given that a measurement h m has been made.

If that argument seems a bit too clever, consider that since we live now in the so-called global economy, contingent on scientific knowledge and high levels of literacy, should not education be deemed essential to the national defense and foreign policy?

The truths of which it is composed are, like those of free knowledge, contingent; but like natural knowledge they are held to be settled independently of God's will. 5.

Surely empirical results could show that any contingent claim to knowledge that we make is false, either by showing that the thing we claim to know is false or by showing that our belief in that fact arose in some untoward way.

So God decides which kind of world to create, including those situations in which free human persons should be placed, knowing how they would respond, and this results in God's free knowledge (contingent truths which are up to God, including foreknowledge of the actual future).

However, self-management is contingent on motivation, knowledge and skills [ 38].