Here as elsewhere, he emphasizes the role of belief as opposed to understanding, pointing out not only that we must believe many things that we cannot understand but also that belief is a necessary condition of understanding [see Contra Academicos 3.20.43; De Libero Arbitrio II.2; and Rist 1994, pp. 56 63].
What Draycott sustains into her new book, Over, is a sense of intimate, imaginative apprehension combined with the knowledge that much of the world lies beyond reach, whether because of its pastness or because loss is a condition of understanding it.
I argue that our acceptance of sung nonsense is more likely due to the fact that such nonsense suggests its own, heretofore unstudied, conditions of understanding.
An exploratory seminar on the conditions, or possibility, of understanding central aspects or domains of human thought "from outside" them, without accepting or commitment to what is held to be so within the domain in question.
As such they necessarily comply with the conditions of understanding: they are culturally and historically situated, motivated by particular concerns and interests and inevitably partial.
Imagination in the free play, he says, conforms to the general conditions for the application of concepts to objects that are presented to our senses, yet without any particular concept being applied, so that imagination conforms to the conditions of understanding without the constraint of particular concepts.
We simulated different conditions, with the aim of understanding the performance of the algorithm under a controlled environment.
In many experimental evolution studies, yeast, bacteria and viruses have been grown under strong selective conditions with the goal of understanding adaptation.
Patients described the effect of understanding their condition on medication adherence.
We need to focus on communicating the importance of understanding past conditions to inspire and guide current design proposals.
"You have to manage the game from the side, but the players have to manage the game as well, in terms of understanding the conditions.
