Sentence examples for one might know from inspiring English sources

As soon as one sees an object, one might know which superordinate category it belongs to.

Dworkin's view, which attracted almost no adherents, had the odd consequence that no one might know what the law of the legal system is, since no one might yet have thought of the best constructive interpretation.

Similarly, one might think Socrates dead, and still, Socrates one might know to be alive.

One might know which sequences satisfy \(\dq{F x)}\) without knowing that they are all the sequences, and hence without being able to determine which sequences satisfy \(\dq{\forall x F x)}\).

One might know that the stil nuovo refers to a literary movement of the thirteenth century, but who can hum an Umbrian Laud?

Without the proper context, one might know only that Mrs. Peabody raised money for causes, as rich people are expected to do; that she gave and attended parties; that she dressed in clothes by Bill Blass, Carolina Herrera, Adolfo, Oscar de la Renta and Yves Saint Laurent; and that, like many women of her generation and era, she "volunteered".

Yet virtually no one who might know the truth appears willing to talk publicly.

This is a concern that scales up in his work from the question of what one person might know of another to larger questions of collectivity, of those "imagined communities"—to borrow Benedict Anderson's famous phrase called nations.

But one group might know for sure — Edward Snowden took to Twitter with claims that the NSA could clear up any confusion around who was behind the DNC security breaches.

She has never found her husband's body and says she cannot bring herself to talk to the one man who might know where it is.

In 1854, when the Irish barrister John Ball suggested to the House of Commons that one day "we might know in this metropolis the condition of the weather twenty-four hours beforehand," he drew incredulous laughter.