It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it.
I would argue that to imply that migration is a wholly negative thing, while knowing that the evidence is far more balanced, is just as unacceptable.
It appears then that there is no difficulty in holding both that Mary comes to know some new things upon her release, while already knowing all the pertinent real-world physical facts, even though the new experiences she undergoes and their introspectible qualities are wholly physical.
Without ever lapsing into sentimentality, Guys and Dolls manages to be knowing and yet wholly and fundamentally, uncynical.
I am in the wholly unique position of personally knowing these men and having had meaningful shared experience of their culture and ceremony.
The philosophy of organism of Alfred North Whitehead, the leading process metaphysician, with its doctrine of creative advance, is a philosophy of emergence; so also is the theory of personal knowledge of Michael Polanyi, a Hungarian scientist and philosopher, with its levels of being and of knowing, none of which are wholly intelligible to those they describe.
The present article was motivated by our observations that (1) current methods for gathering data do not wholly capture program-related transformations, and (2) grassroots ways of knowing yield legitimate data and can enrich programmatic efforts and evaluations.
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And I think that slowly, without me even being aware of it, the pain of knowing that I could have had something I want so wholly -- and losing it -- swallowed up my even wanting it anymore.
There is no crushing concept, no knowing better, though every now and then a touch of camp takes the edge off the wholly wholesome.
Most intractably, it allows to surface the guilt that I feel knowing that such acts of terror are a daily event in many places in the world, not wholly disentangled from American engagement abroad.
