What's the difference between knowable and known?

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.

Known


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Know
  • (p. p.) of Know.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (3) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
  • (4) Ethanol and L-ethionine induce acute steatosis without necrosis, whereas azaserine, carbon tetrachloride, and D-galactosamine are known to produce steatosis with varying degrees of hepatic necrosis.
  • (5) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
  • (6) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
  • (7) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
  • (8) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
  • (9) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (10) PBOP was as effective as polymyxin B nonapeptide (PMBN), the known very potent permeabilizer.
  • (11) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
  • (12) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (13) It has 61% homology with tRNA(Leu)(anticodon m5CAA) and 63% homology with tRNA(Leu)(anticodon UAG), the two other known yeast tRNAs(Leu).
  • (14) The mtRF-1 could translate all of the known termination codons in the rat mitochondrial genome.
  • (15) Groups of inbred female mice of strains CBA or C3H were infected genitally with a pathogenic human strain of Chlamydia trachomatis (N.I.1, serovar F) known to produce salpingitis and infertility in mice.
  • (16) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (17) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
  • (18) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
  • (19) The only localized tumors known to produce elevation of CEA above the levels observed in non malignant diseases are carcinomas of the large bowel and the pancreas.
  • (20) This condition may be caused by the prolonged, repetitive elevations of gonadal steroids and other hormones known to suppress gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion that are elicited by their daily exercise.

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