"It was about getting more miles in the car and getting myself back into the race mode, understanding the tyres, how to save fuel," summed up Hamilton.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Think, rather, that we have complementary modes of understanding.
This is particularly so if we recognize the improbability of eliminating altogether ideological modes of understanding.
Others have argued that consciousness is especially resistant to explanation in physical terms because of the inherent differences between our subjective and objective modes of understanding.
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.
