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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Knowledge?
Does "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge" here refer to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge about the universe"?
Context:
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe
Context:
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe
Top answer
Only in the weak sense that everything that exists or happens does so "in the universe".
- Only in the weak sense that everything that exists or happens does so "in the universe".
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Only in the weak sense that everything that exists or happens does so "in the universe".
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Thanks.
But the question remains.
Does grammatically the "knowledge" here refer to "the knowledge about the universe"?
But the question remains.
Does grammatically the "knowledge" here refer to "the knowledge about the universe"?
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No. here knowledge stands by itself. The rest of the sentence describes the form the knowledge takes.
She has lots of information about visiting China in the form of many books and articles.
She has lots of information about visiting China in the form of many books and articles.
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NL888Does "knowledge " here refer to "knowledge about the universe"?No. Strictly speaking, "knowledge" doesn't refer to anything else in the sentence. It's just the word "knowledge", i.e., truths, things that are known.
... that organizes the things we know in ... (a certain form) ...
Completely external to the sentence, we k
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