know
verb (used with object)
to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty.
knower
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a word derived from
know.
Example Sentences
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“I’ll go after him for being ‘this effete knower of arcane knowledge, who knows little tidbits that no one would care about.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
Internalism is the view that justification is entirely dependent on factors internal to the mind of the knower.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
“If computer chips in my brain were to ‘download’ a textbook of physics,” the authors wrote in their 2003 report Beyond Therapy, “would that make me a knower of physics?”
From Scientific American ● Jan. 23, 2021
You, the subject of what I’m trying to understand, you as a knower.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2020
So as knowledge ceases to be a question of Evidence-Perspicuity and becomes a question of Evidence-Indices a whole new set of intellectual virtues are demanded of the knower.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
