Concerning intrinsic degradation modes, understanding the underlying electrochemical processes and tracing the overall degradation history are the most crucial tasks.
It would be difficult for one to think up a more groundbreaking mode of understanding the mind and the heart.
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.
(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).
For several years now, Martha Nussbaum has been arguing for a mode of understanding human beings (and some other animals) that would emphasize holistic cultivation of diverse capacities.
Nurses identified that patients continuing in that mode of understanding created an imbalance of expectations in the patient-nurse relationship.
There are, it will emerge, two incompatible modes of understanding this abstract notion; here, they are referred to as the 'unrestricted' and 'restricted' modes; and correspondingly, there are two versions of the UAT.
"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.
Like the British Romantics and like the '60s counterculturalists, Dr. Hofmann also saw a "spiritual crisis" in "Western industrial society," one that demanded that we "shift from the materialistic" and discover new modes of understanding.
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.
