half-knowledge

Experience of art, which is a very material phenomenon, not a substitute for "divine revelation" was/is entirely sufficient as a manifestation of "truth," and such truth is also truth about "life" insofar as both require we accept "uncertainty, mystery, doubt, and half-knowledge."

John Dewey's *Art as Experience* 2010

Her friends and the neighborhood boys seem eager to grown up and at times taunt her with their half-knowledge of how babies are made.

Robot reviews: The Color of Earth | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

One of them accepts life and experience in all its uncertainty, mystery, doubt, and half-knowledge and turns that experience upon itself to deepen and intensify its own qualities -- to imagination and art.

John Dewey's *Art as Experience* 2010

That analysis, of course must be based on the solid grounds of the ideology preferred and worked outas well as historical knowledge and so far I have to say unequivocally that in the domain of comments ignorance and childish fascination with half-knowledge are having a ball.

The Mailer That Put the Final Nail in the McCain Campaign Coffin 2008

George W. Bush, most of all, since another war will serve him as a drug to anesthetize the pains of Iraq and drown the half-knowledge of what he has done.

David Bromwich: Hezbollah Is in Iran, Michael Gordon Says American Officials Say 2008

Various bits and pieces of half-knowledge were coming together, forming some new and utterly unexpected whole.

Boing Boing: January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archives 2006

All I have is my half-knowledge of the subject and my social-democratic inclinations, and the policy direction that emerges from extrapolating from those is is too half-baked to put in print.

A Conversation with Brian Francis Slattery 2008

All I have is my half-knowledge of the subject and my social-democratic inclinations, and the policy direction that emerges from extrapolating from those is is too half-baked to put in print.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

The whisper overheard, the detected glance, the glare of malignity, ungrounded fears, suspicions, half-knowledge, and mistakes darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

Uncollected Prose 2006

With his half-knowledge, his ill-gotten and ill-digested information, with his reading which had all been on one side, he had been unable as yet to catch a glimpse of the fact that from the ranks of the nobility are taken the greater proportion of the hard-working servants of the State.

Lady Anna 2004