What's the difference between knowable and nescience?

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.

Nescience


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.

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