ascertainment

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A little nearer we gather the successive ascertainments of human inquiry, a little further off we realize the panoramic vision of the Deity.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

In their particulars his ascertainments are untrue, for in the names he had in no way discovered the alphabetic signs of which they were composed.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Such ascertainments are unquestionably useful; as numerical precision is in other departments.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Experience is in mutation, and our psychological ascertainments of truth are in mutation—so much rationalism will allow; but never that either reality itself or truth itself is mutable.

From Pragmatism by James, William