The phrase "the degree of knowledge" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the level or amount of understanding or information that someone has about a certain subject or topic. Example: "The students' success was dependent on their degree of knowledge in mathematics." This sentence indicates that the students' level of understanding or knowledge in math played a crucial role in their success.
The degree of knowledge of the assisting state as to the actions of the assisted state is highly germane in such cases.
It refers to the degree of knowledge of employees about the service.
AFM investigations have proved to be extremely valuable in expanding the degree of knowledge of mineral-ion interactions.
Factors that may affect the degree of knowledge about SIRS and sepsis among ED nurses were also explored.
The starting point is the study of the degree of knowledge the ancient people had in storage techniques.
To determine the degree of knowledge about intensive medicine and interest in this specialty among medical students in Spain.
In the Yoga-sutras, God is defined as a distinct self (purusha), untouched by sufferings, actions, and their effects; his existence is proved on the ground that the degrees of knowledge found in finite beings, in an ascending order, has an upper limit i.e., omniscience, which is what characterizes God.
Among his major works are Art et scolastique (1920; 4th ed., 1965; Art and Scholasticism, 1930); Distinguer pour unir, ou les degrés du savoir (1932; The Degrees of Knowledge, 1937); Frontières de la poésie et autres essais (1935; Art and Poetry, 1943); Man and the State (1951); and La Philosophie morale... (1960; Moral Philosophy, 1964).
(This is distinct from metaphysical knowledge which, so to speak, approaches the divine from the 'outside.') Mystical knowledge stands one level higher still — where there is no mediation by concepts — and "consists in knowing Deity as such — according to a mode that is suprahuman and supernatural" (The Degrees of Knowledge, p. 253).
Maritain's work in the philosophy of nature appears throughout his work — in his Éléments de philosophie [Introduction to Philosophy, Vol. 1 (1920)], in an essay in Science et sagesse [Science and Wisdom (1935)], but particularly in La philosophie de la nature [The Philosophy of Nature (1935)] and Les degres du savoir [The Degrees of Knowledge (1932)].
Maritain's primary work in epistemology is Distinguer pour unir: ou, les degrès du savoir [Distinguish to Unite: or, The Degrees of Knowledge] (1932), though one finds a number of important essays on the topic in Raison et raisons, essais détachés [The Range of Reason] (1948) and in Quatre essais sur l'esprit (1939).
