Diderot, best known as the chief editor of the Encyclopédie, offered a skeptical, materialist vision of the world whose stark atheism and unapologetic carnality have been overshadowed by the "soft Enlightenment" of Voltaire, which merely swapped the God of tradition for a Deist "watchmaker".
Kieslowski's skeptical, open-ended vision suggests that the answers can be intuited only from riddles, signs, portents and sudden, odd strokes of fate.
It's ironic that this terminology would be used to inject a rigid, pseudo-philosophical moralism into all areas of political dispute, because Bloom's lament about relativism belongs to a supple, skeptical, and hedonistic vision of university life, which is itself based on a psychology of sex and culture taken straight from Nietzsche.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet It's ironic that this terminology would be used to inject a rigid, pseudo-philosophical moralism into all areas of political dispute, because Bloom's lament about relativism belongs to a supple, skeptical, and hedonistic vision of university life, which is itself based on a psychology of sex and culture taken straight from Nietzsche.
But Mr. Barak, like his mentor, Mr. Rabin, was always skeptical of this cooperative vision, and saw the recent events as vindicating his preference for minimal interaction.
I'm skeptical about the "runner vision" thing that highlights where to go, but if they can make the hints subtle enough then it'll just be like Prince of Persia, where you know what you need to do, the hard part is doing it right.
Looking back, Mr. Knudson is skeptical of such "utopian visions".
Though they are more skeptical about whether audition parallels vision, Griffiths and Warren (2004) sympathize with a figure-ground characterization but suggest a working notion of an auditory object defined in terms of "an acoustic experience that produces a two-dimensional image with frequency and time dimensions" (Griffiths and Warren 2004, 891).
Implementation of Leonard's new AI system was halted so the team could quickly assemble proof-of-concept demos; publisher Eidos Interactive had grown skeptical over the team's vision.
But beyond generating that initial enthusiasm, entrepreneurs need to be ready to wage a long, intensive battle to turn ideas into reality, so that even the most cynical or skeptical people believe in the vision.
