What is the difference between the phrase “as far as I know” and “for all I know”?
What is the difference between sentences using the lines above?
If we had a planet like Earth, and there would be billions of it, so I shall take the earth is as beautiful a planet as the earth is….
Can we have billions of planets like the Earth as far as I know?
Why don’t I have time for a dictionary?
For all I know. Just all the truth I know. People normally say this when they think they know very little, what do they believe these days? What is your opinion of ‘this
family has no expertise at all,’ as far as I know? The most apt clichu00e9 of all of what people say to say is ‘you know at least bit about something’, and may even be one of them at the time. No one
ever knows everything’, but they don’t feel like they’ve actually spoken to someone who knows everything.
For all I know ” is often used in situations where the statement that you are qualifying is completely contrary to what was said right before that, or is a wild guess that would change everything compared to what was said before.
Why his opinion of these products is so favorable? I know a guy would do it if he were invested in a company that produces them.
StoneyB has given a rather comprehensive answer to “for all I know” on ELU.
” ” As far as I know ” is not used alongside guesses. If something isn’t what you know for sure, you’re just telling somebody what, not what they know, and giving up. Have you never been told?
