Sentence examples for sensible knowledge from inspiring English sources

The action of divine illumination is therefore neither a direct donation of intelligible contents, independent of the conditions of sensible knowledge, nor is it a simple purification, preparation or refinement of the mind in order to predispose it to intellectual knowledge.

But is this a sensible knowledge?

Filling this out, Kant suggests that to take ourselves to have unmediated intellectual access to objects (to have "non-sensible" knowledge) correlates with the assumption that there are non-sensible objects that we can know.

Plutarch makes a sharp distinction between sensible and intelligible knowledge, which corresponds to the fundamental ontological distinction between sensible or physical and intelligible reality (Plat. Quest. 1002B-C).

Unfortunately we did not study this and to come to a sensible conclusion about knowledge of cancer diagnosis and its effects on quality of life in the future studies it is necessary that the attitudes of physicians about cancer disclosure also be examined.

Herbert Spencer in particular, he argues, moved education from a sensible emphasis on imparting knowledge to a new approach based on the psychological development of children.

Mathematical entities are idealizations made by way of abstraction from our knowledge of sensible things.

It is knowledge of sensible things which is primary and thus prior to the "order of learning" the philosophical sciences.

Accordingly, in order to generate knowledge of sensible entities and intelligible meaning-configurations the conceptual forms of our cognition must apply to both domains.

Thus, when it comes to knowledge of sensible objects, for example, the mind has both a passive role (receiving sense impressions) and an active one (constructing knowledge from these impressions).

What does it offer them to keep the fear at bay? Knowledge of sensible realities comes to life inside the tissue of experience.