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ʌnˈnoʊ ə bəlun·know·able

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unknowableadjective

    not knowable

    "the unknowable mysteries of life"

Wiktionary

  1. unknowablenoun

    Something that cannot be known.

  2. unknowableadjective

    Not knowable.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unknowableadjective

    Not to be known.

    Distinguish well between knowables and unknowables. Isaac Watts.

Wikipedia

  1. unknowable

    Epistemology ( (listen); from Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistḗmē) 'knowledge', and -logy), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics.Epistemologists study the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues. Debates in epistemology are generally clustered around four core areas: The philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and the conditions required for a belief to constitute knowledge, such as truth and justification Potential sources of knowledge and justified belief, such as perception, reason, memory, and testimony The structure of a body of knowledge or justified belief, including whether all justified beliefs must be derived from justified foundational beliefs or whether justification requires only a coherent set of beliefs Philosophical skepticism, which questions the possibility of knowledge, and related problems, such as whether skepticism poses a threat to our ordinary knowledge claims and whether it is possible to refute skeptical argumentsIn these debates and others, epistemology aims to answer questions such as "What do we know?", "What does it mean to say that we know something?", "What makes justified beliefs justified?", and "How do we know that we know?".

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  1. unknowable

    Unknowable refers to something that is impossible to understand, perceive, comprehend or discover through experience or study. It may involve concepts, facts or information that are beyond the reach of human knowledge and understanding.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unknowable

    un-nō′a-bl, adj. incapable of being known.—n. that which cannot be known, the first or original cause: that which is cognisable only in its relations.—n. Unknow′ableness.—adv. Unknow′ably.—adj. Unknow′ing, ignorant, obtuse.—adv. Unknow′ingly.—n. Unknow′ingness.—adj. Unknown′, not known, mentally apprehended, recognised, or made know.—n. Unknown′ness.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unknowable in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unknowable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of unknowable in a Sentence

  1. Johann von Goethe:

    The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

  2. Peter Fuhrman:

    It's a sign of companies' complete lack of confidence in their ability to calculate how long they would have to wait to get a primary IPO listing in China. It's absolutely unknowable at this stage.

  3. Robin Green:

    You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.

  4. H.L. Mencken:

    For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

  5. H. L. Mencken:

    Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

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