Sentence examples for ordinary to know from inspiring English sources

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With all that said, it's not that out of the ordinary to know why the bro-and-sis tandem decided to make music together.

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At a minimum it is a stance about whether people are right in their ordinary claims to know, which is not quite the same as whether they are right in their ordinary utterances of the form 'I know that p'".

Mr Juncker added: "I want ordinary Greeks to know we are offering 35bn euros [about £25bn] to help the economy".

It may come as a surprise to the ordinary moviegoer to know that Beatty has been nominated 14 times for an Oscar.

"I want ordinary Greeks to know we are offering €35bn to help the economy," said Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the EU's executive arm.

"The aim in making the posters is to be as racist as possible, so then when critics complain, the populists can say elites don't want ordinary people to know the truth.

Not many of the names outed in this book have not been outed before, and now that they are all dead it is hard for the ordinary stargazer to know what to believe or trust.

To suppose that requires assuming that knowledge sentences do not have context-sensitive contents—hence that skeptic's denials are true at the expense of the truth of our ordinary claims to know.

For instance, our ordinary claims to know various things seem to conflict with the skeptic's denial that we know any such things that is why skepticism has seemed to pose a problem to which contextualism is said to constitute a novel solution.

Further, there is of course consensus among these theorists that, understood along those lines, context affects the truth-conditional content of knowledge sentences and, in fact, that this phenomenon is what underlies and explains the power of skeptical arguments, even though it also reveals why those arguments do not threaten our ordinary claims to know.

So the truth of C′ is compatible with my ordinary claim to know, since the latter might strictly express the proposition that My having hands rather than my having had my hands amputated and replaced with prostheses is what explains why I believe that I have hands rather than that I've had my hands amputated and replaced with prostheses.

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