The ocean has long been our repository for ideas of the monstrous and the unknowable. |
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It also aligns to various religions teachings which maintain that the true nature of God is unknowable as his or her or its ineffable name. |
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Faced with a wholly unknowable threat, the rational thing to do is to compare those outcomes we can predict, and ignore those we cannot. |
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Although God Himself is absolutely unknowable and unnameable, the Tetragrammaton is His highest emanation in creation. |
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You can never test a theory that claims that an invisible and unknowable force is responsible for a phenomenon. |
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To be sure, because God's essence is unknowable, all theologizing ultimately must end in silence. |
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All new technologies generate fears of unknown and perhaps unknowable potential harm, but reassurance is demanded nonetheless. |
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Everyone who loves you is aware of your unfathomable depth, your dark feelings and unknowable concerns. |
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There are times in the course of war when the outcome is simply unknowable. |
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Some have claimed that even if future events have a truth value, they are logically unknowable. |
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Her untamed sexuality, her unknowable desires, her inexpressible emotions, frighten and drive him further away. |
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It was like reaching back in time and touching the untouchable, the unknowable. |
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Like all kinds of intelligence, estimative intelligence starts with the available facts, but then explores the unknown, even the unknowable. |
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Divine grace was unknowable directly, and could only be seen by its indirect effects. |
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It's an image of fathomless, shocking power, like lifting a trap door and glimpsing something beautiful and noisome, fascinating and unknowable. |
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Most generally, Locke had argued famously that real essences are unknowable. |
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Lastly, Feduccia advocated the notion that convergent evolution may make the ancestry of birds unknowable. |
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In all honesty, having examined this unknowable show on two separate occasions, I remain unclear as to what it is actually about. |
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But who is he, this invisible being that rules me, this unknowable being, this rover of a supernatural race? |
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I don't think he meant that science is full of unpredictable or unknowable or supernatural forces. |
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Unmoving, but in her immobility lay a new freedom, one that was fundamental but unfathomable, simple but unknowable, pure but ungraspable. |
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Lions remain stubborn and untameable symbols of a wilderness as rightly unknowable as they themselves are. |
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Now he wants Americans to appreciate the gray areas and accept that some facts are unknowable. |
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But those are things unknowable to mortal flesh in the case of any particular person. |
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But one of the essential principles of modern science is that such final causes are unknowable. |
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They explain the nature of the universe, of life, while admitting that Creation itself is the one unknowable mystery. |
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As the secretary of treasury, you have to deal with these unknowable issues. |
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The combination of unknowable rules and draconian penalties is already having a chilling effect. |
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The road ahead, as inevitable as it seems, remains fraught with such unknowable consequences. |
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Of course, one of the points made there is unknowability, and the nature of being unknowable is that it's unknowable. |
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The respondents may or may not have the same opinions as the non-responders, which are by definition unknowable. |
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The result is a hard-hitting drama that deals with the unknowable impulses of the universe and of the human heart itself. |
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They are ensuring their profitability, not insuring us against the collective risk we all face from unknowable health disasters, minor to major to life-ending. |
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If reliability is unknown or unknowable, then they just charge a high premium and take a gamble, hoping to spread a loss to other less-risky areas. |
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Sophia, divine wisdom, was the emanation of the that, by her very nature, desired to truly comprehend her Father, the unknowable One, the so-called Alien God. |
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Irascible, impossible, unknowable, unmovable, She Is That She Is, and dead but not forgotten. |
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Because we know God as unknowable through Jesus Christ, the apophatic aim of theology is necessarily and irrevocably anchored in this bit of historical particularity. |
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And this peculiar Camelot is set down in a vast natural desert, forbidding, unknowable. |
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Deep down she must have a soul, or a hint of humanity, but there is something uniquely unknowable about her. |
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A valiant attempt to make a fair and emotionally truthful biopic of Linda Lovelace – though the woman herself remains unknowable. |
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These are the right questions. That struck me as both an unknowable assertion and politically risky. |
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I do not want to get into the details of the evolution of that religion but, for its members, God is a transcendental and unknowable entity. |
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What's more, circumstances can change so fast that an apparent apples-to-apples comparison likely contains an unknowable number of oranges. |
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Some of the assumptions made in our two plans are based on unknown and unknowable factors. |
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The impact of change in the immediate future is often almost imperceptible and the future consequences are largely unknowable. |
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The Manitoba half-marathon was an exciting and unknowable experience, as I had never worn a bib number in my life until that day. |
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The consequences are unknowable for our children, our grandchildren, and for generations to come. |
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Indeed, the application process is structured such that the actual knowing is unknowable. |
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. |
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Thus he seems to have been more like a Kantian believer in unknowable noumena than like a Vienna Circle proponent of the view that talk of God is not even meaningful. |
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Whatever allegorical path of interpretation one pursues, it is the fine filigree fiction of Shaul's anguish that grips, as he quests for the unknowable. |
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The unknowable is not just due to indeterminable causal evolutions and randomicity, but also very much due to the way questions about it are anthropocentrically formulated. |
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I'd been bewitched by the mystery of a city so unknowable that even full sunshine could not illuminate the shadowy noirness lurking in the spaces between palm trees. |
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X and Y could be terrible on their own, unknowable terms, and therefore incomparable. |
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The Glassless will walk around with heads ducked down, desperate to avoid the mysterious, unknowable intentions of the Glassed. |
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They need not accept as unknowable and unanswerable the mystery that entered their lives, almost destroyed them, and turned their worlds upside down. |
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Whether this was because the man had not acted reasonably or whether the team had been poor at explaining his actions is unknowable on present information. |
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Worst of all, we accept this world of unknowable origins as our world. |
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The untold stories between then and now are multiple and unknowable. |
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This notion of God is non-gendered, unknowable, and absolute. |
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The square and the cube are abstract, they're mathematical forms, measurements, perimeters, boundaries, mental constructs, and as such, are emotionally unknowable. |
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Setting an efficient tax rate for self-supplied industry is analogous to setting a price on the externalities for a utility: the costs are poorly known and possibly unknowable. |
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The book is an odd blend of fact and something that goes well beyond fiction, and of characters that are both unknowable and universally unlikeable. |
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In so doing, the government undertakes a radical social experiment, whose consequences on children, social stability, religious freedom and civil society are both unseen and unknowable. |
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It also seems that there is far too often a view held by our clients and others that we are expected to know everything about everything, including the unknowable. |
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It can accept that the future is largely unknown and unknowable, and admit that the extent to which we can determine future outcomes is strictly limited. |
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Contributions are considered an inappropriate instrument for 'discovery research' where ultimate outcomes, or even the direction of the research, are intrinsically unknowable. |
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This interstitial space becomes ultimately terrifying, perhaps because it is unrecordable and thus unknowable. |
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As we begin to travel down this road, however, the tranformative nature of the biotech revolution will undoubtedly hold many unintended and unknowable consequences. |
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Natural indigenous science tends to reserve a place for phenomena which are basically and fundamentally unknowable and unsuitable for research, and the unknowable core gives strength to the knowledge system. |
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The evidence does not support an invasion, the consequences, both short and long term, are unknowable and the results may actually expand the war on terrorism rather than narrow it. |
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Some argue that it is impossible to do the calculation that utilitarianism requires because consequences are inherently unknowable. |
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Idealism asserts that there exists a realm of the mysterious and unknowable that's above or behind what can be ascertained and known by perception, experience and science. |
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One could describe this lyricism of the monstrous life and of the fantastic beauty of the unknowable as some sort of chromosomic oratorio. |
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If anyone knows how to game the rules, it is the super-rich and their advisers. Because of the confidentiality, the value of goods stashed in freeports is unknowable. |
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Materialism also teaches that the world and its laws are knowable and that, while much in the material world might not be known, there is no unknowable sphere that lies outside of the material world. |
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In the modern West, Immanuel Kant created the term noumenon to signify unknowable reality, which he distinguished from phenomenon, the appearance of reality. |
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Beneath our feet lie over 50 years' worth of decomposing material, unknowable subterranean shiftings and settlings, slow collapses and fermentations. |
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Nanak further states that the understanding of Akaal is beyond human beings, but at the same time not wholly unknowable. |
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It is at the cost of making the absolute unknowable, of reducing it to the status of the unexperienceable external world of the dualistic realist. |
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In this way, He is a projection of our own sense of self, and since the times of the Tanach, we have seen ourselves, like Yahweh, as being ultimately unknowable. |
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