Sentence examples for knowledge of the essence from inspiring English sources

The judgment in AF held that in cases concerning national security the "non-disclosure [of evidence] cannot go so far as to deny a party knowledge of the essence of the case against him".

And any reliance upon knowledge of the essence that is only known to us by faith would by that fact cease to be properly philosophical.

It is knowledge proceeding "from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things" (IIp40s2).

In his view, our knowledge of the essence of a thing is only an approximate guess based on the sensible operations of the thing in question (III, 122).

In other words, since the senses cannot grasp what is incorporeal or hidden, sense perception does not yield any knowledge of the essence of things but only of their accidents.

Still, it remains available to Thomas to claim that while the knowledge of the essence of a god is unknowable to philosophy, it is known to us by Revelation.

Barely back from Italy, he writes: "Style rests on the deepest foundations of knowledge, on the essence of things insofar as it is permitted to us to know them in visible and graspable shapes".

He argued that, while metaphysical knowledge of the "essences" (inner natures) of things is impossible, by relying on induction and the information provided by "appearances" one can acquire probable knowledge of the natural world that is sufficient to explain and predict experience.

This superficial acquaintance will never provide us with knowledge of the essences of those things.

It thus invites skepticism (or 'Pyrrhonism,' an ancient form of skepticism, though here the term just means radical or universal skepticism) regarding our knowledge of the essences of created things.

Borgia's way of dealing with his minister is a prime example of what Machiavelli praises as political virtue, because in this instance Borgia demonstrates a knowledge of the inner essence of the people, or of what the people need and expect in a ruler.