half-knowledge
Example Sentences
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Over time, “the constant exchanges over water, the half-knowledge that things could be done differently, began to change people’s minds profoundly.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2015
The point of celebrity, in this context, is to suggest half-knowledge – both to create the demand for real knowledge and give it something false to play against.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2011
As a Japanese friend warns Carey, when it comes to understanding Japan, "half-knowledge is sometimes worse than complete ignorance."
From Time Magazine Archive
This half-knowledge works in me like a kind of possession, and for a few minutes I’m taken over by it.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Even the vulgar are aware of this, and, misinterpreting it as half-knowledge always does, suppose it a sign of stronger animal passions.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
