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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Unknowns

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Does the unknowables mean the same as the unknowns?

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Hi, No. unknowns - things I don't know eg the square root of 4579 unknowables - things it is not possible for me to know. eg the purpose of the universe Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, No.
  • unknowns - things I don't know eg the square root of 4579 unknowables - things it is not possible for me to know.
  • eg the purpose of the universe Clive
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Hi,

No.

unknowns - things I don't know
eg the square root of 4579


unknowables - things it is not possible for me to know.
eg the purpose
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Thank you, Clive, for your useful reply.
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they have the same meaning ,and the process is not the same,
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Thank you, Carolgreen876, for your reply. Could you kindly explain in plain English why "the process is not the same"?
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Perhaps she meant that if something is unknown, you can do experiments or research to try to find the answer.

The Higgs Boson was an unknown quantity in particle physics until the Cern supercollider found evidence of its existence in 2012.

If something is unknowable, there is no possible way to discover it.
Whether there was ever a single first human language is unknowable.
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Thank you, AS, for your useful reply.
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