knowable

[ noh-uh-buhl ]

/ ˈnoʊ ə bəl /

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capable of being known.

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“Evoke” and “invoke” both derive from the same Latin root “vocāre.”

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at know¹, -able

know·a·ble·ness, know·a·bil·i·ty, noun

After all, the knowable universe is big but decidedly finite.
Is the Universe Open-Ended? - Issue 102: Hidden Truths|Caleb Scharf|June 16, 2021|Nautilus
These thinkers, among others, have insisted not only that is love knowable but that learning to think about it in more sophisticated ways can make us smarter, kinder, better lovers.
In this love story, a few bits of wisdom amid woefully out-of-date ‘lessons’|Mandy Len Catron|April 23, 2021|Washington Post
He and other mathematicians are mainly interested in using the game as a yardstick for gauging the difficulty of important open problems in mathematics — or for figuring out what is mathematically knowable at all.
How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits|John Pavlus|December 10, 2020|Quanta Magazine
He had spoken about Rivers in the truest, most knowable way to her friends, loved ones, and colleagues.
I Was There: Inside Joan Rivers’ Funeral|Tim Teeman|September 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Most of the data is from women and for good reason—females have a shorter, more knowable duration of fertility.
Does Fatherhood Make Men Healthier?|Kent Sepkowitz|June 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But let us return to non-fiction, the knowable world, and frankly earthbound thoughts.
Three Great Men Died That Day: JFK, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley|John Garth|November 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
"We're all much more knowable to strangers than we ever were in the past," Thompson says.
Is Weiner's Excuse Credible?|Dan Lyons|June 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST
No superstar ever seemed so accessible—so just plain knowable—to his fans.
Baseball's Greatest Player?|Allen Barra|February 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Nor can it indeed be admitted as true — That the elements are unknowable, and the compound alone knowable.
Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume III (of 4)|George Grote
This is much more human and knowable, with a deep breast and massive limbs, a powerful mountain-body.
Sea and Sardinia|D. H. Lawrence
Concrete general names (and the meaning of abstract names depends on the concrete) should have a fixed and knowable connotation.
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic|William Stebbing
The sense world (mundus sensibilis) lies open to our senses and our intellect, and is empirically knowable within certain limits.
The Wonders of Life|Ernst Haeckel
And it is within the limits of the knowable that Shakespeare's theology confines itself.
Ephemera Critica|John Churton Collins