It would be difficult for one to think up a more groundbreaking mode of understanding the mind and the heart.
(A tactic Kivy does not consider is an attempt to hoist Levinson with his own contextualist petard, arguing that even if architectonic listening is non-perceptual it is a well-established mode of understanding pieces of music in the Western classical music world, and thus that to argue music must be understood primarily perceptually is to beg the question).
Nurses identified that patients continuing in that mode of understanding created an imbalance of expectations in the patient-nurse relationship.
Accordingly, when we say, 'Homer was a blind man,' the word 'blind' actively signifies the passive mode of understanding something as being without sight, and owes its semantic function to the way its corresponding concept is understood.
And a relation, according to Le Grand, "…is nothing else but a mode of our understanding, comparing one thing with others, because of some properties or acts that are found in them" (1694, p. 17).
It is, rather to qualify, as did your earlier column, your claim here that we in the West, or in a democracy, or in America, have a variety of modes of understanding the world and ourselves, and are not disconcerted by the differences or dismayed by the inconclusiveness of it all.
Early on Scholem became committed to critical historical scholarship as a mode of not only understanding the past but reconstructing the present.
We need to let it be the other things that it once was to Russians: a way of being modern, a mode of self-understanding, a civilisation.
"As race and gender and sexuality have become the dominant modes of understanding our world, class has fallen out of the picture," said Jefferson Cowie, a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University who specializes in labor and working-class history.
