What happens to the platitudes used to patiently instruct us about differing witness accounts and unanswerable questions, and all the solemn wishes that a camera had recorded the confrontation between Michael Brown, who was eighteen, and officer Darren Wilson?
My mother, who set the rules, was the one to raise her eyebrows and instruct us about life's darker side.
Yet people who have lived at the epicentre of literary life accumulate such stories, which entertain and instruct us about writers and their lives, and in so doing make them human, less Olympian.
These are models which do not perform a representational function and which are not expected to instruct us about anything beyond the model itself.
Models can instruct us about the nature of reality only if we assume that (at least some of) the model's aspects have counterparts in the world.
Maritain writes, "it belongs to the philosophy of nature to instruct us about the nature of the continuum and of number, of quantity, of space, of motion, of time, of corporeal substance, of transitive action, of vegetative and sensitive life, of the soul and its operative powers, etc".
Yet both cases instruct us about white American racial amnesia.
As for the arts, Hedges hankers for a public support system encouraging the arts to instruct us about the misery of workers.
If this is correct, the phenotypic manifestations of telomerase disorders could in fact instruct us about the turnover of stem cells in various tissues.
Jean-Pierre then instructed us to think about the color green, which apparently has the ability to "stir up the molecules" and, thus, move objects.
