Not exact matches
Terra's Kitchen CEO Mike McDevitt
says there are learners and there are
knowers.
The other solution was to
say clearly that, Yes, the
knower is also a being, and then to think of that being in analogy with tables and stones.
Just as we would
say that the person in the Chinese Box has no real knowledge of Chinese, Hartshorne would
say that God does not have real knowledge of the world unless God is a sympathetic
knower.
Indeed, it is You who is
Knower of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will
say, «O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them
said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
He provides the balanced picture again between
knower and known, without an a priori, in going on to
say: «The key to development is a mind capable of thinking in technological terms and grasping the fully human meaning of human activities, within the context of the holistic meaning of the individual's being.»
Expulsion of the human subject from nature is implied in the scientific method of knowing which puritanically (one is tempted to
say Gnostically) segregates the human
knower from nature, and in the materialism, mechanism, or «hard naturalism,» which follows from a severe logical divorce of physical reality from mental reality.
When classical theists state that God is the being of all things, they could just as easily
say that God is the thinker of all things, the eternal
knower whose thinking is what we perceive as reality.