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knowability

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Etymology

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From know +‎ -ability.

Noun

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knowability (countable and uncountable, plural knowabilities)

  1. The quality or state of being knowable.
    • 2018, Richard F. Hassing, Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs (page 4)
      Accordingly, with respect to their knowability or opinability, Socrates makes no distinction among the sensibles between natural things and artifacts (510a5–6); both are relegated to the realm of opinion. Hence, there is no Socratic-Platonic biology.

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