Fitch's reasoning, at best, shows us that there is structural unknowability, that is, unknowability that is a function of logical considerations alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fitch's Paradox of Knowability] Reference

FWIW, "unknowability" was in one of my dictionaries; so there you go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Associated Press: Pet Owners Prefer McCain To "Petless" Obama] Reference

But is there a more substantial kind of unknowability, for instance, unknowability that is a function of the recognition-transcendence of the non-logical subject-matter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fitch's Paradox of Knowability] Reference

The ineffable unknowability of shadowy blackness strikes again!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Associated Press: Pet Owners Prefer McCain To "Petless" Obama] Reference

As to Beatty's unknowability, isn't that Biskind's job to penetrate?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Farr: Missing The Mark On Warren Beatty] Reference

Synthesis of available data indicate unknowability/inferiority of humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 3.1 of 31.1] Reference

In part this reflected Rumsfeld's emphasis on the unknowability of the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blind Into Baghdad] Reference

And I am far from counselling unknowability about all things, as you seem to suggest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do fantasy stories undermine rationality in children?] Reference

Instead, I take comfort in the knowledge that death restored to Tatiana her rightful unknowability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzanne Rivecca: Letting The Tiger Out: How A Zoo Tragedy Helped Me Write My Book] Reference

He didn't understand Irina, and he suspected he might never penetrate vast areas of her unknowability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

And still size and silence, unknownness and unknowability, struck against her as much as when she first fared forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Book of Stormgate]

But there are a number of very simple truths that are being hidden behind a smokescreen of complexity and unknowability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arianna Huffington: Tim Geithner, CNBC, and the Second Coming of Known Unknowns] Reference

SNOW: Of course, one of the points made there is unknowability, and the nature of being unknowable is that it's unknowable.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 11, 2003] Reference

Anyone who argues against being concerned about global warming cannot, in good faith, ignore this fundamental unknowability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » The Mike Brown of Climate Change] Reference

She is obviously lost in thought, a condition that Rohmer respects by allowing her the silence and unknowability of private space.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of Springtime] Reference

Taking the silence, the mystery, the essential unknowability of death as a given, Van Sant makes no attempt to interrogate or explain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Mondays: Gus Van Sant’s “Death Trilogy” 2002-2005] Reference

As a filmmaker you can't presume to know what's in someone's heart; you've got to respect the essential unknowability of the human heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Listi: Politics as Bloodsport: A Conversation with Stefan Forbes, Director of Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story] Reference

In the vast majority of cases, the unknowability of a borderline statement is only relative to a given means of settling the issue (Sorensen 2001a, chapter 1).    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

As this reasoning shows, the unknowability of claims like not-win together with the knowability of claims like not-buy position us to launch another challenge to closure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistemic Closure Principle] Reference

First, The major philosophers of most world faiths...stress the unknowability of the Diving Essence, as the infinite reality underlying all the appearances of finite worlds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

I see myself repeating some of my subjects - the instability of identity, the unknowability of others, doppelgangers - and worry that I may be going to those wells too often.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-10] Reference

And its the fundamental unknowability of consequences that many of the Romantics considered vital — it's one of the main reasons they considered Shakespeare a kindred spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naming of Parts] Reference

With contingency and unknowability: Thoroughly modern Lucretius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Face to face ...] Reference

Taking the silence, the mystery, the essential unknowability of death as a given.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

To appreciate it, you've got to accept a large measure of mystery and unknowability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

He warned against "simple explanations" and spoke of the unknowability of the thoughts that.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Collaborative drawings open us up to each other and to the radical unknowability of the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

And he also understands the mystery and the unknowability of women, certainly through men's eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [NAACHGAANA] Reference

Their series was all about ethical ambiguity, the unknowability of truth, questions too deep to have answers.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

I’m concerned about the unknowability of other people ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Various Miracles | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference

We don’t really know that, but that comment, i think, speaks to a deep unknowability about this whole enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » The Mike Brown of Climate Change] Reference

Hamlet positively revels in unknowability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

Did I forget inexperience and unknowability?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Associated Press: Pet Owners Prefer McCain To "Petless" Obama] Reference