Citations:scibile

English citations of scibile

Noun

• 1866, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin Review - Volume 7; Volume 59, page 224:

  They felt, as it were, in their own weakness, that the scibile, like the foundations of the world itself, rested on the Living God —that "underneath were the Eternal Arms."

• 1880, George Grote, Alexander Bain, George Croom Robertson, Aristotle - Volume 31; Volume 187, page 239:

  But in the order of nature (that is, in the order followed by those who know the scibile as a whole, and can expound it scientifically) that which comes first is the Universal or the simple Subject abstracted from its predicates or accompaniments; we have to enquire, first, whether a given subject exists; next, if it does exist, what is its real constituent essence or definition.

• 1930, Leo Richard Ward, Philosophy of Value: An Essay in Constructive Criticism, page 149:

  For scibile or the knowable thing has a potential meaning, but knowledge and known have an habitual or actual one;

• 1970, Ralph M. McInerny, A History of western philosophy, page 261:

  Thus, while the same thing may be a credibile and a scibile, to be a credibile and to be a scibile are not the same.

• 1993, Ivan Boh -, Epistemic Logic in the Later Middle Ages, →ISBN, page 58:

  ...which can be read as claiming that the potential knower of r knows (in the required sense) the premisses, but does not know r, i.e. the scibile which is as of now in principle dubitable.

• 1998, Jaroslav Folta, “Alistair Duncan: Kepler on Light and Sound Franz Pichler: Johannes Kepler and his Contirubtion to Applied Mathematics”, in Acta historiae rerum naturalium necnon technicarum, volume 2:

  He restricts his investigation to geometrical objects which are scibiles (plural form of scibilis), and this means, which are constructible by ruler and compass.

Adjective

• 1956, Aleksandr Herzen, Selected Philosophical Works, page 62:

  Every dilettante is occupied with all that is scibile and, over and above it, with that which is unknowable, i.e., mysticism, magnetism, physiognomy, homeopathy, hydropathy, etc.

• 2008, Hervaeus Natalis, John P. Doyle, A treatise of Master Hervaeus Natalis (d. 1323), the doctor perspicacissimus, on second intentions, →ISBN, page 253:

  But here we are speaking about the connection in their knowability of things that are knowable (cognoscibile) and scientifically knowable (scibile) by the intellect.

• 2016, Christopher Cleveland, Thomism in John Owen, →ISBN, page 61:

  God certainly knows everything that is to be known; that is, everything that is scibile.