Convey the content of the message clearly and accurately according to the receptive
language level of the student
Not exact matches
With Musk, I've been consistently impressed with how much the
language of science, technology, and rational inquiry is woven into his conversation, often at a granular
level.
The two
of them had decided that these little machines needed a simple, «high -
level»
language with which users could write programs.
This proposed statutory
language, which all states will now have the option to adopt, is intended to «harmonize state -
level regulation
of virtual currencies in the absence
of an overarching federal payments regulatory framework.»
Gaebler lauded the law's
language allowing the SBA to raise its loan guarantee from current
levels to as much as 90 percent for some loans, but said «this latest, new rule negates some
of those provisions and... doesn't offer much respect to the small business economy, especially when you consider the big role that small business plays in an economic recovery.»
At the federal
level, the US Department
of Energy's much - anticipated study on grid reliability deliberately removed
language noting harm from climate change between the draft and final versions.
While it is encouraging to see the high
level of support from Chinese companies, for whatever reason, the unfortunate truth is that not all leading domestic Chinese companies are able to serve the one belt, one road as they are constrained by traditions, culture, and
language barriers.
There is the fact noted above that the
language of political correctness and the
language of pastoral Christianity overlap only at the
level of phonetics.
, official
languages and huge disparities in the
level of education between congregants.
The writer who goes under this name has left us some
of the most magnificent poetry in the Bible — poetry which is largely free from the archaic obscurity
of some
of the earlier prophets, and can be enjoyed for the power and range
of its imagery and its richly embroidered
language, as well as for the sublimity
of its thought, which touches, probably, the highest
level reached anywhere in the Old Testament.
But the fact that the patient retains his use
of language at all illustrates that a certain organizational
level persists within the «nonsocial» nexus.
Instruction in Islam is given in local
languages at the lower
levels, but for higher studies a good knowledge
of Arabic is necessary and mastery
of Persian and Turkish is required for any extensive research.
So if a person wants to read all
of the various holy works himself in the original
languages (not me) or carefully research the secondary
level works
of the scholars who do, I think both approaches show their is something special / different about the Bible.
Hence the act
of understanding
language is partially a case
of high -
level conceptual occasions, and partially one
of reiterative expectations.
If ecumenical dialogue is to take place and to mean anything, it can not operate simply at the
level of a quest to find common
language and a few shared but isolated concepts.
On the
level of language, however, in the writing itself, connections are made: between Jack's jaundiced skin and the «jaundiced» air in their contaminated home; between the lazy, insolent motion
of the apparition and her mother's indolent dawdling in the backyard.
I have to leave my immigrant church, a concern for first generation congregations who saw and still see churches as a both a strategy and physical space to connect generations divided by
language, education, power, and
levels of assimilation through faith.
And Paul is making claims about «all flesh» and «every person» and about the «power
of the gospel to save» that go beyond the specific cultural conditions
of Jews and gentiles in the first century — his
language demands to be engaged with at the anthropological / theological
level.
It is distressingly banal to reduce Paul's
language about sin and grace, about disobedience and love, to the
level of cultural attitudes (toward, for example, «imperial ideology»), though such a reduction often passes itself off as theology in some seminary classrooms today.
Their
level of value depends on how
language and actions collaborate with the unfolding nature
of reality, that is the unfolding, subsummation, and reconciliation
of all things.
Thus if, in keeping with a process analysis
of language - function, both the confession and the metaphysical assumption are to be taken with full seriousness, the meaning or point
of the confessional element must be sought on the imagistic, rather than the univocal,
level.
John Paul uses the strongest
language possible: Suffering in Christ «unleashes» love — again, both in the sufferer, who is united with Christ at the most intimate
level, and in the one who ministers to him in imitation
of Christ.
But between these primitive forms
of sign interpretation and the interpretation and use
of language there are many intermediate
levels.
The principle is that in regard to the presentation
of subjective aims, God has to «speak» to each actual occasion in its own «
language,» that is, at its own
level, in a manner harmonious with the character
of the sort
of data which are in general operative in the aesthetic synthesis which is the concrescence
of the actual occasion in question.
Such a miracle would involve the suspension
of the laws
of nature at the
level of primitive actual occasions, but if we accept the principle that God «speaks» to a given actual occasion in its own «
language,» and if the «
language»
of primitive actual occasions in nature is such that the character
of the data available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescence
of such occasions admits only
of absolutely miniscule contrasts with the givenness
of the character
of the past, then God has no leverage via subjective aims to introduce shifts in the social structures conditioning the possibilities available for aesthetic synthesis in the concrescences
of such primitive actual occasions.
In other words, Collingwood answers Ayer by emphasizing that metaphysical
language about being is never situated on the
level of empirically verifiable or tautological propositions but on the
level of absolute presuppositions.
In the extreme, they become moods and motivations operating at the
level of internalized values instead
of observable features
of discourse,
language, or institutions.
Both art and religion are rooted in the Logos, and the
language of both is symbolic; for symbols, whether religious or aesthetic, open up
levels of reality which are otherwise closed for us and unlock dimensions
of our soul which correspond to that reality.
But protagonists
of rival theories can seek a common core
of overlap in observation
languages, on a
level closer to agreed observations to which both can retreat.
Below the
level of atoms it becomes increasingly difficult to devise methods
of dividing things, but anything that has mass (i.e., in Bergson's
language, all energy, all composites
of matter and élan vital) can in principle be divided in principle be divided, and the principle
of metaphysical divisibility should apply.
While advancing to STL -
level courses brought new opportunities, like studying Church Fathers and Scholastic theologians in their original
languages, it also brought a new sense
of isolation.
The adult Christian, no matter what the degree
of his psychological or spiritual maturity and commitment, needs education in terms
of increased understanding and strengthened performatives at and beyond the
level of language.
When we operate on the assumption that our
language must constantly be trimmed so as not to give offense, to stroke the psyche rather than to place it under attack, it will
of course gradually decline to the
level of greeting - card sentimentality.
The second distinctive characteristic
of the human
level is that, despite periods
of recession, successive generations add something to the diversity and range
of meanings which
language and other symbols can carry.
I agree that the creation account is a piece
of literature / theology which is couched in
language which the Hebrews could understand but to put it on the
level of a completely imaginary fairy tale like Cinderella creates problems because we cant formulate doctrine on the basis
of fairy tales.
The use
of a nickname, the humorous situation that «breaks the ice» at a stuffy party, swearing which offends the pious because it is close to the logic
of the
language about God, the use
of words with a specialized meaning and enclosed in quotation marks or inverted commas, the discovery
of someone's name after an encounter on an impersonal
level are incidents which may lead to discernment.
The very expression «postulate» should not mislead us; it expresses, on the properly epistemological
level and in the
language of modality, the «hypothetical» character
of the existential belief involved in the demand for completion, for totality, which constitutes practical reason in its essential purity.
He notes that Marxists share with conservative philosophers a disdain for concerns about the meaning
of language, but he observes that it is exactly at the
level of language that the moral inadequacies and corruptions
of our age are evident.
In a remarkable little book, The Educated Imagination, Northrup Frye suggests that there are three
levels to the understanding and each
of the three has its appropriate
language.
Frye's second
level of speech he calls the
level of social participation, and the appropriate
language there is «technological
language.»
Now the third
level of consciousness that I want to lift out
of Frye's analysis he calls the
level of imagination, and the appropriate speech for this
level is what he calls «poetic
language.»
In common
language, a hierarchy is an organization
of individuals with
levels of authority — usually with one
level subordinate to the next one above and ruling over the next one below.
Let's look briefly at Northrup's types: Ordinary speech is the
language of the
level of consciousness.
Nevertheless, since the possibilities
of grouping the Turing machine's primitive table into higher
level concepts are quite varied, a new philosophy
of mechanism would tend to support an organization
of software into a higher
level language that is intuitively mechanical.
It understands only if the simple actions are grouped successively back towards a higher
level language, so that groups
of simple actions or instructions may have an intuitive understanding that can be expressed in ordinary
language.
Graves writes on page 20: «I will assume, along with Carnap, Nagel, and most other philosophers
of science, that a theoretical reduction
of one
level A to another
level B requires the following two things: (1) Each term that appears in A should be definable in terms
of the
language of B.
This intuitive understanding
of the
language of TV is shared by people whether they can read print or not — and therefore brings about a kind
of levelling between those who can read print and those who can not.
By an opaque concept
of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation
of three
levels of language in one form
of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the
level of the confession
of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the
level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding
of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body
of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule
of orthodoxy.
In more advanced education at the university
level, there must necessarily be specialization — in one
of the sciences, in literature, in philosophy, in the
languages, and in much else.
With the highest
levels of education traditionally denied to women, the written
language has therefore become a major tool
of men's continued power.