Sentence examples for object of knowing from inspiring English sources

(See also the proposal at Kahn 1969, 710 and n. 13, to identify Parmenides' subject in the Way of Conviction as "the object of knowing, what is or can be known").

The feminine cognitive style is said to be epistemically superior because it overcomes the dichotomy between the subject and object of knowing and because an ethic of care is superior to an ethic of domination.

Maritain writes, "[t]he metaphysician considers an object of knowing of a specifically higher nature and intelligibility, and from it he acquires a proper knowledge, a scientific knowledge, by means that absolutely transcend those of the physicist or the mathematician" (Degrees of Knowledge, p. 37).

1520, I, f. 126rD; my interpretation here differs somewhat from that of Pickavé, who separates the question of analogy from that of the first object of knowing by suggesting that the distinction between what is negatively indeterminate and what is privatively indeterminate has a different meaning and function in the two cases.

Thus in Jerne's scheme, the subject-object structure of knowing has been replaced with an understanding of cognition occurring directly within the system itself.

In his Summa, however, Albert makes further distinctions concerning the object of human knowing.

Critical realism acknowledges the "impossibility of knowing objects except under particular descriptions" [ 31, p. 249] but at the same time propose that experiences are linked to structures such as social, economic or biochemical, whose effects can be manifested in people's accounts [ 32].

It is precisely this Aristotelian description of God (as subject and object of the pure act of knowing), together with a heightened Neoplatonic sensitivity to God's unity (arguably seen more emphatically in Avicenna than even in al-Farabi) which grounds Maimonides' own understanding of the divine.

I spoke to some people who had not only been cruelly shunned for another person but had the added misfortune of knowing the object of their lover's indiscretions.

I spoke to some people who had not only been cruelly shunned for another person, but had the added misfortune of knowing the object of their lover's indiscretions.

Yet other aspects of knowing architectural objects diverge from the well-worn path, as reflective of special characteristics of the architectural enterprise and its products and consumption.