Sentence examples for possibility of knowing from inspiring English sources

If you open yourself up to the possibility of knowing a person you never know how your life can change.

The class will begin to understand that Cinqué made a choice without the possibility of knowing the possible consequences.

I couldn't risk the possibility of knowing things that were worse than my suspicions".

He is, or was, my father, but by co-operating with my artificial conception, he deprived me forever of the possibility of knowing him.

The philosophical topics to be covered include the nature of reality, the existence of God, the relation between mind and body, and the possibility of knowing anything about the world around us.

Specific topics include prophecy, miracles, and the possibility of knowing the divine, with particular attention to the relation between modern and premodern conceptions of reason and Moslem, Christian, and secular philosophical influences on Jewish thought.

In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions and possibilities of knowing.

Since this line of interpretation seeks to downplay Locke's agnostic tendencies, one challenge is to account for Locke's pessimism about the possibility of our knowing real essences.

At a stroke the past has become flooded with possibility; and the erotics of knowing – and not knowing – are back in play.

The Tikkunei Zohar, a classic of Jewish mysticism, states, "No thought can grasp him". Higher knowledge of God does not require that a person discard reason, but simply be open to the possibility that there are ways of knowing that are trans-rational.

She and the bird and the way I stood and watched, a sparrow, sometimes a goldfinch, knowing that if I moved my hand the bird would fly off the rail and the fact of knowing this, the possibility of my intercession, made me wonder if my mother would even notice that the bird was gone, but all I did was stiffen my posture, invisibly, and wait for something to happen.