For example, I have to be creative when I use 1980s basketball strategies or
ancient word processing software orzen buddhism to describe our daily behaviors.
Not exact matches
I am using the term «dialectic» in its
ancient and etymological sense, and it seems appropriate to describe the
process by this
word; for instead of an aprioristic, deductive method of procedure, the
process was one of answering questions and objections as they arose, not in anticipation, and not as the unfolding, more geometrico, of a system implicit within a body of axioms or first principles which one needed only accept and then all the rest followed logically to the final Q.E.D..
In his
words, «The Kingdom of God as a
process of open commenssality, of a nondiscriminating table depicting in miniature a nondiscriminating society, clashes fundamentally with honor and shame, those basic values of
ancient Mediterranean culture and society» (Crossan: 70).»
The
word is drawn from the
Ancient Greek
word πλάσσω which means «to shape» and is used to refer to the interweaving of opposites or the
process of moulding a dualistic object into unity through the power of the imagination.
Ancient bad habits (such as using the
word «acidification» for a
process that can't make anything acidic) should not be tolerated.
Some very famous writers, and more than a few prestigious courts, still hold on to «
ancient»
word processing software from that crude era, before they took on oodles of pointless features, like ships gaining barnacles.