Definitions for knowable
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. knowable, cognizable, cognisable, cognoscibleadjective

   capable of being known

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. knowableadjective

   Capable of being known, understood or comprehended.

2. Etymology: Attested since the 15th century;

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Knowableadjective

   Cognoscible; possible to be discovered or understood.

   Etymology: from know.

   These are resolved into a confessed ignorance, and I shall not pursue them to their old asylum; and yet it may be, there is more knowable in these than in less acknowledged mysteries. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.

   ’Tis plain, that under the law of works is comprehended also the law of nature, knowable by reason, as well as the law given by Moses. John Locke.

   These two arguments are the voices of nature, the unanimous suffrages of all real beings and substances created, that are naturally knowable without revelation. Bentley.

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1. knowable

   Fitch's paradox of knowability is one of the fundamental puzzles of epistemic logic. It provides a challenge to the knowability thesis, which states that every truth is, in principle, knowable. The paradox is that this assumption implies the omniscience principle, which asserts that every truth is known. Essentially, Fitch's paradox asserts that the existence of an unknown truth is unknowable. So if all truths were knowable, it would follow that all truths are in fact known. The paradox is of concern for verificationist or anti-realist accounts of truth, for which the knowability thesis is very plausible, but the omniscience principle is very implausible. The paradox appeared as a minor theorem in a 1963 paper by Frederic Fitch, "A Logical Analysis of Some Value Concepts". Other than the knowability thesis, his proof makes only modest assumptions on the modal nature of knowledge and of possibility. He also generalised the proof to different modalities. It resurfaced in 1979 when W. D. Hart wrote that Fitch's proof was an "unjustly neglected logical gem".

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1. knowable

   Knowable refers to something that is capable of being known, understood, perceived or comprehended. It's used to describe information, facts, or concepts that can be discovered, learned, or realized through observation, study or investigation.

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1. Knowableadjective

   that may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained

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How to pronounce knowable?

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How to say knowable in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of knowable in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of knowable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of knowable in a Sentence

1. Johann von Goethe:

   The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

2. Jerome Powell:

   I don’t think anyone knows whether we’re going to have a recession or not, it’s just not knowable.

3. Robin Green:

   You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.

4. Rudolf Virchow:

   The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=knowable
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Knowable
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=knowable
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowable
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knowable
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=knowable