What's the difference between comprehended and knowable?

Comprehended


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Comprehend

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 66% of the women did not comprehend how lactation performance could decrease.
  • (2) As clinicians comprehend more fully the multifaceted areas of resistance to treatment, they will be able to help their eating-disordered patients traverse a therapeutic impasse.
  • (3) Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, a Griffith University associate professor, said the research was “a major step forward in understanding how seaweeds can harm corals and has important implications for comprehending the consequences of increased carbon dioxide emissions on the health of the Great Barrier Reef”.
  • (4) What the world is seeing now is what we already knew.” Recent events are difficult to comprehend, Ms Karunatilake said, and left her questioning faith and hope.
  • (5) The Jewish writer and theologian Arthur Cohen wrote of the Shoah in terms of what he called the Tremendum, something so completely impossible to comprehend, yet so essential that we (all) try.
  • (6) In each of these cases both the chiropractic practitioner and the emergency room physician failed to comprehend the nature of the problem and take appropriate action.
  • (7) Calculation of structural features of drugs and modeling of biomacromolecules by means of 3D-computer graphics afford a new approach to comprehend a molecular interaction which is important for drug action.
  • (8) Environmental samplings on the ward, comprehending 246 contact cultures, resulted in the isolation of C. difficile from 25 plates (10.1%).
  • (9) Comprehending the nature of this property which couples ionic fluxions into mentality is the quintessential problem of science.
  • (10) Much of the frustration among the UPC members seems to be inspired by a distant authority making a decision about a conflict it couldn't, in their view, possibly comprehend.
  • (11) She said: “We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but an opportunity for carnage.
  • (12) "We find it difficult to comprehend James Murdoch's lack of action, given his responsibility as chairman."
  • (13) The target materials consisted of sentence puzzles that were difficult to comprehend in the absence of a key word or phrase.
  • (14) It is difficult to comprehend the logic of expecting improvements in this agenda while withdrawing half a billion dollars in funding to many service agencies, and leaving them poised precariously at the mercy of a clumsy and poorly executed “advancement” strategy.
  • (15) To comprehend speech in most environments, listeners must combine some but not all sounds from across a wide range of frequencies.
  • (16) Regarding the onset near that age period of capacity to use and comprehend the relational nature of opposition, supporting evidence derives from experimental data on the syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift.
  • (17) If we then accept our limitations on the precision and order with which we can comprehend it, the understanding of borderline might be supplemented by seeing it in terms of the subjective experience of an integrated self.
  • (18) Normal and language-impaired subjects did not differ in their ability to infer a connection between the novel word and referent, to comprehend the novel word after a single exposure, and to recall some nonlinguistic information associated with the referent.
  • (19) The usefulness of functional studies in order better to comprehend the anatomical substrates of PA and their prognostic value are briefly discussed.
  • (20) All 12-and 14-month-old children comprehended the pointing to a nearby object and most of them also understood the pointing to a distant object.

Knowable


Definition:

  • (a.) That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus the Laplacian ideal of universal laws relating knowable causes to predictable effects cannot be realized in psychology.
  • (2) Why,” the anthropologist asked a wise woman of the tribe, “why are all your songs so short?” And the wise woman replied: “Our songs are all so short because we know so much.” In other words, the experience of living as a single people in a single place, where each new generation follows the same old paths – such an experience produced a wonderful, enviable confidence about the reliability and the knowability of the world.
  • (3) The poor child in the very next bed with the same condition as my son had gone into complete liver and kidney failure There are more and more ways in which we are as knowable as ice cubes.
  • (4) What is this child's long-term prognosis, to the extent that this is knowable?
  • (5) What is knowable concerning the lived experience and the psychopathology of patients during the border state between coma and waking?
  • (6) The actual statistical structure of affinity landscapes, although knowable, is currently unknown.
  • (7) It is suggested nevertheless that information on the midrange, knowable, part of the dose-effect curve may prove useful in predicting safe levels for man.
  • (8) The first tenet of positivism is that the world is made up of "out there" objectively knowable "facts".
  • (9) In the end, some questions have been raised and some organizational suggestions have been proposed, in order to guarantee the constancy and validity of the survey and above all the knowable acceptance of the insiders.
  • (10) The end-product in constitutional terms is not yet known or knowable.
  • (11) Light flash transient visual evoked response (VER) testing is often a part of the perioperative evaluation of eyes with opaque media, and pupillary size in these patients may not be knowable or may be inadvisable to alter.
  • (12) We know that there are no meaningful or even at this point knowable ways for determining who’s on a watchlist or should be, and connecting that to gun purchases is only doubling down on a problematic situation to begin with,” said Warren, whose organization also represents people challenging their apparent watchlisting.
  • (13) The suitability of an AI tool is determined by the knowable facts of the pathology subfield, by the match with its knowledge structure and by its requirements.
  • (14) But the nature of the problems to be solved or the values to be guarded by a patient in psychotherapy are not knowable independently of the patient's actual behavior.

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