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knowing and how
Even in normal experience one gets impressions without knowing exactly how -- of atmosphere, of one another's personalities, moods, intentions.
At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.
Even he, wanting her, afraid of her and not knowing how to press his suit, feared the evil presences in her metabolism more.
" Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson commented on astrological belief, noting that " part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us.
) Not knowing how it had occurred, she spent the next three years studying the Bible, experimenting and praying to discover if the experience was repeatable and if there were knowable laws that governed it.
" For example: in mathematics, it is known that 2 + 2 = 4, but there is also knowing how to add two numbers and knowing a person ( e. g., oneself ), place ( e. g., one's hometown ), thing ( e. g., cars ), or activity ( e. g., addition ).
Some philosophers think there is an important distinction between " knowing that ," " knowing how ," and " acquaintance-knowledge ," with epistemology primarily interested in the first.
Gilbert Ryle is often credited with emphasizing the distinction between knowing how and knowing that in The Concept of Mind.
For centuries, many philosophers and scientists supposed that extrasolar planets existed, but there was no way of knowing how common they were or how similar they might be to the planets of the Solar System.
Lincoln relayed this conversation to Sir John Peyton, Lieutenant of the Tower, who, knowing how physically and financially infirm Oxford was, refused to take Lincoln's report as a serious threat to King James ' accession.
The principles underlying intra-and inter-individual differences could be educationally useful, because knowing how students differ in regard to the various dimensions of cognitive development, such as processing and representational capacity, self-understanding and self-regulation, and the various domains of understanding, such as mathematical, scientific, or verbal abilities, would enable the teacher to cater for the needs of the different students so that no one is left behind.
Freenet works by storing small encrypted snippets of content distributed on the computers of its users and connecting only through intermediate computers which pass on requests for content and sending them back without knowing the contents of the full file, similar to how routers on the Internet route packets without knowing anything about files — except with caching, a layer of strong encryption, and without reliance on centralized structures.
Some, such as the 2010 edition, feature advanced, but rare, technology that is risky to use due to the average Gamma World character not knowing how to properly operate such devices.
A candidature could turn into a bribery competition, without ever knowing exactly how much competitors paid to obtain office.
As syntax began to be studied more closely in the early 20th century, in relation to language learning, it became apparent to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers that knowing a language was not merely a matter of associating words with concepts, but that a critical aspect of language involves knowledge of how to put words together — sentences are usually needed in order to communicate successfully, not just isolated words.
(...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean.

knowing and ship
On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).
More fond of life on a small ship, and knowing that young officers in the submarine service were advancing quickly, Rickover went to Washington and volunteered for submarine duty.
While taking off into the atmosphere, Starscream destroyed the ship, knowing that mankind will resist on their own.
" After the ships had engaged each other, Hull looked to see if the enemy ship, which proved to be HM frigate Guerriere, had surrendered by striking its colors: " not knowing whither the Enemy had struck, or not, we stood off for about half an hour, to repair our Braces, and such other rigging, as had been shot away, and wore around to return to the Enemy, it being now dark we could not see whether she had any colours, flying or not, but could discover that she had raised a small flag Staff or Jury mast forward.
From time to time, Mzu asks ship captains for passage off the habitat, knowing that such requests will be vetoed by Ione Saldana.
On the ship, a Tleilaxu Face Dancer in disguise manipulates Yueh into believing that an unidentified new ghola being created is that of Piter De Vries ; horrified, a tormented Yueh poisons and kills it and the once-human axlotl tank in which it is gestating, knowing the consequences for his actions will be severe.
The Beowulf poet may have followed the same tradition, knowing a tale in which in the driving out of Heremod, Heremod's young son and heir Scyld somehow ended up placed in a ship which was set adrift.
Despite knowing the strict isolationist Japanese policy of the time, which meant death or imprisonment for foreigners who set foot on Japanese soil, he signed on as a sailor on the whaling ship Plymouth in 1845.
Lyar confronts Prim and LeBlanc, knowing they sabotaged Misaki's ship to study her, but with even Woerns powerless to stop LeBlanc, she vows to do things her own way.
The system can calculate the tracked object's course, speed and closest point of approach ( CPA ), thereby knowing if there is a danger of collision with the other ship or landmass.
When Megatron and his crew stole the Golden Disc, Divebomb, knowing of his plans to alter history, ordered Laserbeak and Buzzsaw's ship to assist them.
The crew of the Gemini 12 knew they were dying and so, to stop the time machine aboard falling into the wrong hands ( knowing how it could be abused and how dangerous it could be to mess with time ) they sent the ship away into deep space on autopilot.
Hayne, on learning that it is the Enterprise in orbit, instead offers the services of Ishara Yar, Tasha's sister, knowing of Tasha's past service aboard the ship.
Harry Kim, now acting as Captain, orders the warp core ejects to bring the ship out of warp and allowing them time to contact the ship for help, knowing this may tear the ship apart.
Ralph refuses to fire upon it, knowing that it carries the new Virginian governor, Sir Francis Wyatt, but the pirates open fire, and Jeremy Sparrow, before the English ship can be destroyed, purposefully crashes the ship into a reef.

knowing and works
5: 54: 35 to 5: 55: 13 And God, all encompassing ( all guiding ), all knowing, only your ally, God and his messengers and those who believe, and those who establish the prayer and give the purification works ( I-zakata ,) and they those who bow down.
* In the Cosmic Era works, Gundams are mobile suits that carry a specific type of operating system, first secretly produced ( without the programmer himself knowing what he is programming the system for ) by the one of the protagonist's robotics research group, and faced a few upgrades by various factions throughout the story.
St. Thomas Aquinas, a prominent Doctor of the Catholic Church, divided miracles into three types in his Summa contra Gentiles: These works that are sometimes done by God outside the usual order assigned to things are wont to be called miracles: because we are astonished ( admiramur ) at a thing when we see an effect without knowing the cause.
The most controversial of his works is perhaps " Memorias de un Cortesano en la Era de Trujillo ", in which Balaguer, shielded by his political power admitted knowing the truth about the death of the revolutionary journalist Orlando Martínez.
Typically, this involves knowing how the system works and finding a secret key.
If K is only a commutative ring and not a field, then the same process works if A is a free module over K. If it isn't, then the multiplication is still completely determined by its action on a set that spans A ; however, the structure constants can't be specified arbitrarily in this case, and knowing only the structure constants does not specify the algebra up to isomorphism.
Due to the lack of whole works by Xenophanes a lot of meaning is lost and a large amount of guessing is at hand, so that the implication of knowing being something deeper (" a clearer truth ") may have special implications, or it may mean that you can't know something just by looking at it.
Some such claims would appear to be contrary to patent law ( which requires public disclosure as a condition of granting a patent ) or to copyright law which does the same for works available to the public, or to contract law which requires informed knowing assent to reasonable contract terms as a condition of enforceability in court.
He works to decipher the parchments of Melquíades but stops to have an affair with his childhood partner and the love of his life, Amaranta Úrsula, not knowing that she is his aunt.
Postmodern education should emphasize works not in the canon ; it should focus on the achievements of non-whites, females, and the poor ; it should highlight the historical crimes of whites, males, and the rich ; and it should teach students that science ’ s method has no better claim to yielding truth than any other method and, accordingly, that students should be equally receptive to alternative ways of knowing.
Also during this time, to avoid taking a job in the aforementioned Moondance Diner, she temporarily bought shares in the stock market using the few savings left in her bank account ($ 127 ), despite not knowing anything about how it works, buying shares from companies only because of their names, not knowing what the companies did or how successful they were.
( ii ) to distribute, import for distribution, broadcast or communicate to the public, without authority, works or copies of works knowing that electronic rights management information has been removed or altered without authority.
Related to this is personal insider access, where advantageous info can be gained through " knowing someone " (" I'll find out what really goes on from my brother the cop, or my aunt the judge, or my friend who works in accounting ").
He established his professional reputation as a member of the Abbey Players in Dublin, while he achieved stage renown for his knowing interpretations of the works of Samuel Beckett.

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