If one can see nothing but cynicism in this statement, one will be blind to the core of honor, a little tarnished but real, that I, for one, discern in Bill Clinton.
Not only can one discern his early interest in the importance of nothingness in his thinking, but there is also indication that he was sensitive to the non-dual immediacy of experience, which Nishida described as 'pure experience'.
How can one discern this?
Given their political thrust, one discerns where a President Obama will face mine fields on the political left (a reason to also track down Rachel Maddow's excellent, revealing Obama interview on MSNBC last week).
One discerns something of a family trait here.
The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs Lucy Hutchinson, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
What's more, one discerns a whiff of jury inconsistency; in August last year following allegations of multiple sex abuse allegations against peacekeeping troops in Central African Republic, it was the UN peacekeeping envoy Babacar Gaye who was fired.
One discerns evidence of the billions being put into new building and infrastructure, even though the spokespersons say that 2012 will be the year when more construction will be evident.
He converted everyday experiences, such as walking into a dark auditorium to attend a lecture, into iconic abstractions: "The late hastening visitor finds himself in an interior of plum-colored darkness… upon which one discerns the focusing spray-like yellowish-white light, the concentric, circular rows of seats, a portion of the screen".
In the current discourses on sustainable development, one can discern two main intellectual cultures: an analytic one focusing on measuring problems and prioritizing measures, (Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Mass Flow Analysis (MFA), etc).
However, if one looks back over his corpus of work, one can discern two broad lines of enduring interest, one having to do with the political domain, the other with issues of rationality, communication, and knowledge.
