Sentence examples for purported knowledge from inspiring English sources

Depending on how they are understood, sense data are either not indubitable or else not informative enough to justify a sufficient portion of our purported knowledge.

Armed with purported knowledge of your peers' personalities, conversations can skip over the polite get-to-know-you small talk and dive right into the ancestral trauma.

The strength of this argument varies with its examples of purported knowledge.

Our purported knowledge, on this view, is more like a raft, which may have to be rebuilt on the open sea, to use Neurath's famous metaphor, than like a pyramid standing on its apex (Neurath 1983/1932, Sosa 1980).

If we specify the content of our purported knowledge, the objection has much less intuitive bite: it is not particularly plausible that we know that Newtonian Physics is true.

I would like to see her in more stressful situations, too -- with all of her purported knowledge of how to handle oneself, I feel like when it comes to her, it'd all go out the window.

While it is purported that knowledge management systems can help, they have generally failed to do so, because there are significant thought world barriers associated with the different perspectives and domains that individuals have to overcome.

But if it is not a myth, then does this mean that we have some way of knowing moral truths that morality somehow escapes the problems raised for other areas of purported metaphysical knowledge?

On Friday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a suit against unknown traders who it said used a Goldman Sachs account in Switzerland to trade on purported inside knowledge of the transaction.

For example, universities purport to produce knowledge and understanding, language enables the communication of truths, marriages facilitate the raising and moral development of children, economic systems ought to produce material well-being, and so on.

Fueled by the unstable compound of judgmental voyeurism and a search for self-knowledge, reality television purported to provide a glimpse of how all sorts of people truly are, at home, with just each other and an omnipresent camera crew.