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To answer this, we must consider the argument for conceivability as the touchstone which is to separate the "Knowable" from the "Unknowable."
The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Various 1888
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Positive, the 'Knowable', whose priests handled hammers, spectroscopes, electric batteries -- and who set up for me a whole
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If it can be shown that he places at the very foundation of Science a postulate or, what is generally conceded to be a demonstrated truth, which, equally with the conception of the Universe as self-existent, involves the conception of infinite past-time, it is evident that we shall have broken down the fundamental distinguishing characteristic which separates his "Knowable" from his "Unknowable," and thus leave Science and Religion standing upon the same level of validity in their relation to the human mind.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Various 1888
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In the second part of "First Principles," which treats of the "Knowable," Mr. Spencer says (p. 180): "The
The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Various 1888
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Religion's meant to fill in the gaps of the Unknowable, not contradict the Knowable But Makes You Uncomfortable.
Archive 2008-01-20 Rogers 2008
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Religion's meant to fill in the gaps of the Unknowable, not contradict the Knowable But Makes You Uncomfortable.
Pretty Much Turtles All the Way Down Rogers 2008
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Knowable phenomena (shes-bya), also called comprehensible objects (gzhal-bya), are cognitive objects that can be known by valid cognition (tshad-ma).
Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations in Alternating Order 2006
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How Knowable imputedly self-sufficiently self-sufficiently imputedly imputedly
Basic Features of the Gelug-Chittamatra System ��� 1 Types of Phenomena and Ways of Existing 2006
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Knowable phenomena (shes-bya), also called comprehensible objects (gzhal-bya), are cognitive objects that can be known by valid cognition (tshad-ma).
Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug Presentation 2006
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Knowable phenomena (shes-bya), also called comprehensible objects (gzhal-bya), are cognitive objects that can be known by valid cognition (tshad-ma).
Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Non-Gelug Presentation 2006
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