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Definition of Knowable

1. Adjective. Capable of being known.

Definition of Knowable

1. a. That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained.

Definition of Knowable

1. Adjective. Capable of being known, understood or comprehended. ¹

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Definition of Knowable

1. know [adj] - See also: know

Lexicographical Neighbors of Knowable

Literary usage of Knowable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1805)
"jls~ to these maxims, when they come to the from other use of reason, amounts in reality of fact to knowable no more but this, That they are never truths, ..."

2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1873)
"SPENCER'S " First Principles" consists of two parts, Laws of the Unknowable, and Laws of the knowable. Part I. we reviewed in the New Englander for January, ..."

3. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"... consciousness—in the latter way when the antithesis between nature and mind is in view, in the former when nature has jet to be represented as knowable. ..."

4. The Principle of the Incarnation: With Especial Reference to the Relation by Henry Clark Powell (1896)
"Of the knowable as it is in itself, and as it is known or perceived in one or two relations by us! How far short must what we call understanding fall of a ..."

5. The Evolution Hypothesis: A Criticism of the New Cosmic Philosophy by William Todd Martin (1887)
"The unknowable is as necessary to thought as the knowable. ... In every affirmation as to the knowable there lies the implication that it stands in a real ..."

6. The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Being an Examination of the First by Borden Parker Bowne (1874)
"LAWS OF THE knowable. THE "Laws of the knowable" constitute Part II of Mr. Spencer's First ..."

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