Sentence examples for pretense of knowledge from inspiring English sources

Because we are not God, our narration of another's life is a pretense of knowledge — simultaneously an attempt to know and a confession of how little we know.

Is it what Hayek had in mind when he talked about the pretense of knowledge?

1929 , 1998and 2008 exposed what Friedrich Hayek, in his 1974 Nobel lecture, chastised as economics' "pretense of knowledge".

In that sense, they were no less inspired by the "pretense of knowledge" than the Keynesians' advocacy of fiscal policy in the 1960s, which Hayek condemned so forcefully.

Along the way, this make-believe substitution raises our presumption of knowledge about the workings of a complex economy and increases the risks of a pretense of knowledge about which Hayek warned us" (2010, 89, my emphasis)4.

The dynamics that sustain this truth-telling dimension of the "pretense of knowledge"—the rights and wrongs of government action and, increasingly (I will come back to this), of all actions are thus not simply internal to the discipline.

Wouldn't it make more sense, Riley asks, to hire broadly educated persons who made no pretense of "advancing knowledge" to teach most of the courses?

That said, Mr. Charles made no pretense of faking knowledge of lyrics that had slipped his mind, which was frequently the case.

That's why Friedrich Hayek argued – rightly – that central planning is impossible: it's a pretense of exact knowledge.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin November 5, 2015 Ben Carson may seem like a viable alternative to Donald Trump, but his pretense of practicality and knowledge is troubling.

It's a foolish, ahistorical approach, in my view, based on a naive reading of baseball history, but at least it avoids the pretense that our current level of knowledge about who used steroids in the 1990s — knowledge that's based on a mix of hearsay and haphazard investigative proceedings — is somehow sufficient to separate the sheep from the goats and keep the Hall untainted.