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

Socrates: So that what gives truth to the things known and the power to know to the knower is the form of the good.

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