The request to call in the matter is understood to have been refused in the first instance as it was lodged too long after Peck's decision was made.
The text printed on it wasn't very likely to offend (or, for that matter, be understood).
In Descartes's philosophy, matter was understood as totally autonomous from any spiritual agent and this point of view was almost identical to atheism.
What this feature amounts to will obviously depend on how the distinction between form and matter is understood.
This traveller too was incessantly hearing American civilization and culture denigrated from the depths of upper-class Swedish prejudice: "If I, in all modesty, told something about America, it could happen that in reply I was informed that this could not possibly be so or that the matter was better understood in Sweden".
The situation prompted a writer in the Leather Trades Review, a weekly published in London, to comment, in 1950, "News such as this quietly trickling through scientific circles and appearing in small sections of the overseas press is enough to make headlines as big as those concerning the new atomic bomb if only the significance of the matter were properly understood".
It has emerged that Mr Davie, a former executive with the food company PepsiCo who joined the BBC as marketing chief, was head of the editorial chain of command for the controversial Newsnight story, although it is understood that the matter was not referred to him.
Just as the artwork is taken as central and determining in the experience of art, so is understanding similarly determined by the matter to be understood; as the experience of art reveals, not in spite of, but precisely because of the way it also conceals, so understanding is possible, not in spite of, but precisely because of its prior involvement.
We probably took advantage" of business travelers who had no choice but to pay high walkup fares, Mr. Hilfman said, adding, "The fact of the matter is we understand those days are never coming back" That admission comes as domestic airlines brace for even more fighting over fares and market share.
The matter is to understand the risks and the unintended consequences of the anthropogenic use and release of antimicrobial agents into the biosphere, which without appropriate measures might drive the world towards a post-antibiotic era where mortality due to untreatable and fatal infections may become customary, particularly in underdeveloped areas of the world [ 3– 5, 12, 14].
By contrast, during the Renaissance, knowledge was understood as a matter of resemblance between signs.
