Quotes About Datum

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

In so far as your metaphysical beliefs are implicit, you vaguely interpret the past on the lines of the present. But when it comes to the primary metaphysical data, the world of which you are immediately conscious is the whole datum.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree : you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say 'this we know'.

The individual, however, as an irrational datum, is the true and authentic carrier of reality, the concrete man as opposed to the unreal ideal or normal man to whom the scientific statements refer.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case of affine geometry, we have a definite invariant quadratic form, viz. the metrical groundform once and for all as an absolute datum.

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

What a datum! I couldn't help thinking over and over.