Example Sentences

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Isn’t it impossible to argue for the knowability of something that, by definition, can’t be known?

From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2023

If I see a movie that is unapologetically bleak about the knowability of a person, then I feel less alone.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2019

Depending on your taste, this is either an unforgivable lapse on French’s part or a thrilling defiance of the mystery genre’s complacent faith in the knowability of the world.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2016

Questions of identity and representation, knowability and unknowability, truth and illusion are woven into the fabric of the plot, not laid on top of it in the form of “themes.”

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2014

In 1898 the announcement of his "elective" on Metaphysics explained that the class would consider "the unity or pluralism of the world ground, and its knowability or unknowability; realism and idealism, freedom, teleology and theism."

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William