Meanings of speculative knowledge in English

But speculative knowledge is not the cause of the things known.

Objection 1: It seems that God has not a speculative knowledge of things.

Nor did he mean speculative knowledge, or the power of reasoning.

Real speculative knowledge demands the combination of the two ingredients-rightreason and facts to reason upon.

They do so: but you know ordinary practice does not require a nicety of speculative knowledge.

But speculative knowledge can be also in the unrighteous, according to James 4:17: To him .

On the other hand, speculative knowledge has its fruit in its very self, which fruit is the certitude about the thing known.

All their literal and speculative knowledge shall not avail them, so long as they are strangers unto him who is the truth.

By our private study and reading, we may attain to a literal, heady, and speculative knowledge, that will puff us up, 1 Cor.

In accordance with this, therefore, it must be said that God has of Himself a speculative knowledge only; for He Himself is not operable.

And indeed we may venture to assert that whatever speculative knowledge is necessary to the artist, is equally and indispensably necessary to the connoisseur.

Whether God Has a Speculative Knowledge of Things?

2: Further, speculative knowledge comes by abstraction from things; which does not belong to the divine knowledge.