Sentence examples for knowledge was incomplete from inspiring English sources

Speaking Friday, John E. McLaughlin, the acting CIA director, said the agency's error was to write reports "without sufficient caveats and disclaimers where our knowledge was incomplete". The bipartisan Senate report, however, depicted something more troubling: an agency that knowingly skewed its reports to fit its convictions about an Iraqi nuclear threat.

But if this description is correct, then her previous knowledge was incomplete (for a detailed discussion of Dennett's argument involving the blue banana trick see Dale 1995).

Jean-Christophe Vié, of the IUCN Global Species Programme, said the assessment was the best understanding so far on wild bees in Europe, but knowledge was incomplete due to "an alarming lack of expertise and resources".

While these efforts (and more) have aided in our understanding of how genetics and molecular pathways help the bird combat viral infection and transformation, as the majority of the genetic variation is unaccounted for, our knowledge was incomplete.

He said it differed from other sorts of thinking because it was initiated by a sense of unease in the learner when they realised that their knowledge was incomplete or inaccurate and that it differed from other forms of thought in having a definite outcome.

Psychiatric diagnosis and its manual, the DSM, are a work in progress, with the shortcomings of any human endeavor in which scientific knowledge is incomplete.

The rarity of these tumors has made for limited experience and, as a consequence, our knowledge is incomplete.

Physical things contain matter as an essential element, and, if their matter is no part of what is known, then it seems that human knowledge is incomplete.

However, the human knowledge is incomplete and refers only to the deductive relations faults-to-manifestations, while the diagnosis is basically abductive.

Yet in circumstances where our knowledge is incomplete about what happened, who was responsible and how best to respond given the complexity of the conflict that has engulfed Syria, there is a need to exercise caution and precaution.

Adaptive management is an approach to natural resource management that emphasizes learning through management based on the philosophy that knowledge is incomplete and much of what we think we know is actually wrong.