Sentence examples for ordinary knowledge from inspiring English sources

It has no practical or educational aim, yet it knows what ordinary knowledge cannot seize.

What we need is just the ordinary recoil, the ordinary knowledge that at a certain point people can't go on looking at their fingernails when there are thieves in the store.

His books include studies of contemporary hedonism and New Age practices as well as a treatise on "ordinary knowledge," which he sees as rooted in everyday life and encompassing the irrational, illogical and emotional aspects of human experience.

"Indeed," he wrote, "it is as likely to take place as are most future events that common-sense inference and ordinary knowledge of human nature tell us will happen".

If skeptics can establish that the clause is false in the case of a person's claim to know that p, they will have proved that the person does not know that p. Thus arises skeptics' practice of searching for possible counterexamples to ordinary knowledge claims.

If the skeptic can establish that this clause is false in the case of a person's claim to know that p, he will have proved that the person does not know that p. Thus arises the skeptic's practice of searching for possible counterexamples to ordinary knowledge claims.

So Lewis lets the sceptic win any debate they are in, without conceding that ordinary knowledge-ascriptions are false.

In everyday life the standards for knowledge-claims are set much lower, and so ordinary knowledge-claims about the world are true.

While proponents of EC have made much of the fact that their view promises a novel and appealing resolution of skeptical puzzles like SA, contextualists have also emphasized what they regard as EC's consonance with our ordinary knowledge-attributing practices.

But ordinary perceptual knowledge, such as one's knowledge that the lights just went out, involves no such emotional motivation.

His position is that we have a lot of ordinary modal knowledge concerning practical, scientific, and mathematical matters, but perhaps limited extraordinary modal knowledge.