People confuse speech recognition with language understanding, argues Mr Norman.
The need for this shared understanding argues for new styles of media studies where future leaders in academia, creative industries, public intellectuals, and media companies study side-by-side.
Propositional understanding, argues Brogaard, no more requires coherence in one's beliefs than propositional knowledge, and so the difference in value between the two cannot lie here.
David Hume, a British empiricist and a skeptic, in the chapter "On Miracles" in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding argued that, given the general experience of the uniformity of nature, miracles were highly improbable and that the evidence in their favour was far from convincing.
In the second half of the 17th century, the empiricist views of Locke were similarly controverted by Leibniz, who examined Locke's views in minute detail in Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain (1704, published 1765; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding), arguing that ideas can be virtually innate in a less trivial sense than Locke allowed.
She pleaded for understanding, arguing that she had simply intended to stress to parliamentarians of all parties that the time for decision had arrived.
One day after admitting to an extramarital affair with an aide, Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) pleaded for understanding, arguing that hours spent on a tanning bed "fried [my] judgment".
A narrow understanding, he argues, can breed its own kind of arrogance: "No critic should ever say they are bored.
In contrast with Western understanding, Bilgrami argues that Gandhi believed exemplary actions, not principles, are at the root of his philosophy on nonviolence.
Scott McCloud, in his cartoon treatise "Understanding Comics," argues that the image you have of yourself when you're conversing is very different from your image of the person you're conversing with.
Contrary to conventional understanding, it argues that Loos's critique of contemporary architectural and fashion styles should not be read as contributing to the discourse of lost authenticity and estranged identity, which is identified with Viennese modernism.
