knowable
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˈnoʊəbl/
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conocible
- The concept is knowable if we break it down into simpler parts.
- humanly knowable
- knowable reality
- knowable truth
This is not the case in terms of the knowable or the perceptible.
- This is not the case in terms of the knowable or the perceptible.
- The last one is not knowable and not important.
- We can make the universe more knowable together.
- And thereby because it is not sensible, not knowable either.
- So I'm I'm much more on the sort of, you know, reality is much less knowable than we think side of things.
- And I'm just revealing what is knowable out there in a way that can be digested.
- So what I hope is true is that God is knowable.
- You could say it's a philosophical motivation, the belief that the universe is actually knowable and is actually simple.
- How do we get people on the same page so that we have a debate that has a knowable outcome?
- I could see that this was built carefully by people, for people for a purpose, but what that purpose was was not knowable by me.
- One is, for example, there there's an intense insistence in the Christian tradition that the mind of God in some sense is knowable.
- And again, we've been able to behave in the absurd fashions that we are behaving now simply because our world, it seems so knowable.
- So this is the pleasure that one gets from a knowable community.
- They're doing more with less to being able to to know everything that is knowable from as small a sample as possible.
- So this is the reconstitution of a knowable community based on a special kind of knowledge.
Examples
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So this tends to be, it's knowable, but sort of expensive to do.
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We make careful, strategic, measured, thoughtful decisions with knowable outcomes.
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I do think that this is a, there is a knowable answer here.
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The last one is not knowable and not important.
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We can make the universe more knowable together.
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Right, knowable and thoughtful and careful.
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But, but looking at these big picture topics, thinking as a scientist, what is knowable via the scientific method?
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It's precipitation and air pressure, as knowable as the workings of this ship.
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We have no knowable metaphysical purpose in life and must accept a lack of foundations.
Academic text (1999) -
Muhammad described his dialysis sessions, in contrast, as safe: the outcome knowable and his life made bearable.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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1.6
Clear and easy to see what it means or why someone feels that way
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3.6
Easy to notice or find
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3.7
Easy to understand
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3.2
A problem you can find an answer to
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3.8
Easy to understand
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3.7
A thing you can describe clearly or show its clear limits
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2.9
Something that can be found or learned
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5.5
Something people can understand because there is a clear reason
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3.6
Able to be solved or explained, for example a question
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6.7
You can find out from facts or data
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8.1
Easy to notice or understand
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5.7
Able to be understood or explained
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3.7
Easy to read or understand
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5.1
Easy to notice or understand
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7.5
Most people can understand it easily
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4.9
Easy to understand
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6.6
Able to be worked out from the given information
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2.7
Easy to find out from information or clues
Able to be known or understood by people
Easy to understand
Easy to understand
Can be guessed from a small amount of evidence
Someone can understand or solve it if they try
Possible to find or reveal by searching
Antonyms
How Knowable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Knowable comes from the simple verb know ('to have information about something' or 'understand') plus the ending -able ('can be'), so it literally means 'can be known or understood'.