Sentence examples for of attaining knowledge from inspiring English sources

After all, it will be contended, scientific method is the only reliable and indubitably successful and self-correcting method of attaining knowledge (pure mathematics perhaps excepted).

In itself, it does not mean that we are capable of attaining knowledge, for there might not be any impressions that one can be confident in assenting to.

The Bible, or parts of it, might be considered testimony about God, and accordingly as one possible way of attaining knowledge of God.

Vives was pessimistic about the possibility of attaining knowledge as understood in Aristotelian terms; and his thought anticipates the moderate skepticism of early modern philosophers such as Francisco Sanches (1551 1623) and Pierre Gassendi (1592 1655).

Yet the more general point Gassendi makes is that no intuitions untested by sensory experience will yield knowledge of God's essence or anything else, as the primary mode of attaining knowledge (and that by which any intuitions must be tested) is empirical demonstration.

The highest level of attained knowledge was registered among nurses of Health Clinic in Ilijas, 4.6 points, and the lowest among nurses from the School Polyclinic in Sarajevo, 3.4 points, which equals the number of points achieved in the pre-test.

This refers to attaining knowledge of the definitions and explanations of the meaning of concepts and categories in each coding system on a higher level than category text and description; for example, examining parent and child concepts related to a concept in SNOMED CT and also examining all ICD-categories connected to a KSH97-P category.

She begins by giving an example of the correct method for attaining knowledge, one similar to those developed by Descartes in Discourse on the Method and Arnauld and Nicole in Logic or the Art of Thinking (see section 2.3 of this entry).

This trend in turn produced a growing distrust of the power of human beings to attain knowledge of the ultimate basis of natural phenomena.

In his preference for the philosophical quest to attain knowledge of the Forms over indulgence in the pleasures of mimesis, for example, one can see a hierarchy of values that rank the eternal, abstract, intellectual world of ideal forms over the transient, particular, sensuous world of physical objects.

Through self-knowledge, the devout mystic strives to attain knowledge of God Himself.