Sentence examples for proportion of our knowledge from inspiring English sources

Reid, a close friend of Campbell's, likewise gave massive emphasis to the role of testimony, stressing both the innate nature of the credence we give to testimony and also the very great proportion of our knowledge of the world that we gain, not through perception or reason, but through the testimony of others.

"We would have freedom of the will in proportion to our knowledge of the brain," he told Gantt in 1927, just as "we had passed from a position of slave to a lord of nature".

The fallacy is that of inferring from the fact that our understanding of any (past) historical event such as, for example, the French Revolution is in direct proportion to our knowledge of the antecedent conditions which led to that event, that knowledge of all the antecedent conditions of some future event is possible, and that such knowledge would make that future event precisely predictable.

Current cure rates in younger adult patients (age <60 years) average approximately 40% and are even lower in the elderly. 1 A substantial proportion of our current knowledge about AML prognosis is based on data from clinical trials.

A high proportion of our respondents had very poor knowledge about risk factors for breast cancer (55%).

A ring test of this proportion has, to our knowledge, not been performed before for any of the previously developed evaluation methods for ecotoxicity studies [28].

A striking proportion of professional knowledge can be turned into routine action, and the division of labour can bring big efficiencies to the knowledge economy.

The skeptical scenario is a high stakes context for S because all, or at least a large proportion, of her knowledge is at stake.

But only a small proportion of university knowledge is applied by industrial actors, a fact which can be explained by the scarce knowledge flow channels between academia and industry (Mueller 2006).

A significant proportion of students' knowledge on injury prevention was increased through school safety program.

The proportion of community knowledge on health extension services was unsatisfactory (41.6%).