Sentence examples for desire to know something from inspiring English sources
Are questions reducible to something like a specific desire to know something, as Meinong thought (1910, §18), or are they ultimately irreducible?
This act coincides neither with intellectual states like uncertainty, doubt or conjecture, nor with volitional stances like the wish or the desire to know something.
"The dirty little secret of most scientists is the desire to know something that nobody else knows," said Allison, who said he learned of the Swedish Academy's honor early Monday morning while attending a conference of cancer researchers in New York.
To paraphrase Nagel, there is something it is like to know something, and that "something" is different from what it is like to feel or desire something.
The term "ascertained" (niścita), when unpacked by Dharmakīrti and his commentators, demands that good reasons must be sound (i.e., the premises must in fact be true and the conclusion must follow from them), that their three characteristics must be ascertained, and that the opponent have the appropriate "desire to know" (jijñāsā) something new that he does not already know.
