Indigenous Knowledges Symposium - University of Sydney Dec 14/15

...be recognized as whole systems, not simply add-ons, and not permitted entry into the dominant knowledge machinery on the proviso that they re-structure themselves to fit within its regimes of intelligibility. In this paper I pay due heed to these issues and also to the significant differences in form and method that exist between IK and canonical university knowledges and knowledge practices. One...

from the thomistic philosophy of the angels

.... Thomas could not have undertaken to examine the knowing act proper to separated substances. 163bot An immediate consequence of the complete immateriality of subsistent forms is their perfect actual intelligibility. Angelic substance is knowable through itself, since it is completely separated from matter. Once positing the creative act whereby such a form is given existence, it is then actually...

Выбирать, собирать

... произведений, наверное :) слово редкое, судя по всему. intelligent (inter+) умный, обладающий интеллектом, разумный, но не "интеллигент". noun: ↑ intelligence , ↑ intelligentsia , ↑ intelligibility ; adverb: ↑ intelligently , ↑ intelligibly ; adjective: ↑ intelligent ≠ UNINTELLIGENT, ↑ intelligible ≠ ↑ unintelligible] Буквально intellect означает "выбирать между", Это та штука позволять ...

Voided words about voidness. III

... from "I", becomes the primary aim of the subject. The mastering of infinitely varied world of objectivity, knowledge of material things in accordance with the criteria of rational clarity and intelligibility - all this were put above all. The problem of mutual connection, interaction between the Nature and consciousness was relegated to the background. Moreover, the human was surrounded by "the ...

Voided words about voidness. III

... from "I", becomes the primary aim of the subject. The mastering of infinitely varied world of objectivity, knowledge of material things in accordance with the criteria of rational clarity and intelligibility - all this were put above all. The problem of mutual connection, interaction between the Nature and consciousness was relegated to the background. Moreover, the human was surrounded by "the ...

God and Philosophy: Western philosophy without a yawning gap

.... All of them freely use the language of the Schoolmen in order to express nonscholastic views of a nonscholastic world (Pp110-1). With the Christian God still operating as the supreme principle for the intelligibility of nature. With the criticism of Kant and the positivism of Comte we no longer have a God who is an object of cognition. The metaphysical “why?” question goes away, to be left ...

"The difficulties attending dependability of communication and mutual intelligibility in connection with problems of knowledge are notoriously great"   knowing and the known john dewey rough translation: people often misunderstand what others are trying to say

...the sentence has in language, but avoiding the way it cuts up and closes down -- that is to say, in short, its power of representation . H weaves not sentences, but syntactic movements, scraps of intelligibility, stains of language (in the sense that this word could have in the calligraphy of a Jackson Pollock). What is it then, linguistically, which is ousted from this text? It is not so much ...

The Archbishop of Guam's anti-gay letter, in text form.

... contraception denied that marriage has any intrinsic connection with the begetting of children. One may legitimately separate out making love from making babies. Once this link was broken, the intelligibility of biological gender was lost. Once marriage was simply about making love, the necessity for limiting sexual relations to persons of the opposite sex no longer appeared convincing. Secondly...

Короткое резюме: 'On Bullshit' by Harry Frankfurt

... of knowing how things truly are. These “anti-realist” doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry. On Bullshit is an essay by philosopher Harry Frankfurt. Originally published in the journal Raritan in 1986, the essay was republished as a separate volume in...