In comparison with this strength, I may add that the English-American-French forces operating from France against Germany never, to my knowledge, amounted to 100 divisions.
A group of conservationists eventually took Taylor Energy to court, arguing that its agreement with the federal government to clean the site without the public's knowledge amounted to a secret deal "that was inconsistent with national policy," which calls for citizen input under the Clean Water Act.
Some of this knowledge amounts to common sense.
"Abandon knowledge" amounts to a prescriptive paradox.
But in fact their rejection of knowledge amounts to what the evangelical historian Mark A. Noll, in his 1994 book, "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind," described as an "intellectual disaster".
This type of knowledge amounts to necessary, analytic truths, in his view: once one knows the terms that enter into such a proposition, and once those terms are combined into the proposition, one cannot help but assent.
If the majority consists of the willfully ignorant--for false information and biased and subjective knowledge amounts to the same thing as ignorance--then the exercise of that authority has a good chance to be bad.
(4) Causal knowledge amounts to knowing the magnitude of the effect at all future times: the probability ratio a month later, a year later, and at every time point in-between, before, or thereafter.
But beyond the state's capital, our knowledge of Wisconsin amounted to a few hours spent on I-90 and a grab bag of cliches about cheeseheads, badgers, blizzards and lakes, mostly frozen ones.
In order to enhance its stakes and procedures, however, reason needs a point of orientation, an idea of what universal knowledge would amount to, even though such knowledge by definition is out of reach.
At the same time, he seems to have believed that his own physical investigations were sufficiently similar to mathematics that they amounted to demonstrated knowledge, and that experiments or observations provided their foundational principles.
