Below are
some of the search methods available.
Reviewers can search for documents using a variety
of search methods, including keywords and complex Boolean queries, and queries can be restricted to specific metadata fields.
There is no «foolproof» method of conducting a search, irrespective
of search methods used (like AI tools).
(For details
of search methods used in previous versions of this review, please see: Britton 2007; Renfrew 1995; Renfrew 2012b; Sikorski 1999; Sikorski 2002)
Not exact matches
Though Google is notoriously secretive about their
methods and policies, many experts feel that 2014 will see the
search engine giant focusing on two elements: 1) great content and 2) the size
of your social media footprint.
To her point, today's marketing is driven heavily by a mix
of online ads, sponsored content, and
search engine optimization —
methods that place your content front and center to audiences that can be targeted and managed across a number
of demographics.
«Existing
methods of keyword
searching and advanced levels
of that work well enough if the prior art is obviously there,» Karypis said.
«Aha» moment: Corkcicle emerged from Hewitt's love
of white wine (particularly chardonnay) and
search for an effective, convenient cooling
method rather than an ice bucket.
The trick is to perpetually
search for and allow the optimal mix
of person, idea, market,
method, and more.
The key is that as well as providing quick, easy to use communication
methods of competitors, it performs
search well.
More interesting than the headline - grabbing claim about extending life was the
method of combining
search engine data with wearable data to investigate the bodily impacts
of augmented reality gaming, which mixes reality with computer graphics.
Research from the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs found that B2B marketers use an average
of three paid distribution
methods — including
search engine marketing, print promotion, banner ads, promoted posts, social ads and content discovery platforms (like Outbrain)-- to amplify the content they produce.
A «test»
of a few ads on Graph
Search are targeted not to a user's queries but based on the same targeting
methods used for Facebook ads.
With the rise
of entrepreneurs
searching for funding that fits the modern age, new, technology - enabled lenders have emerged, offering greater flexibility and speed than many traditional funding
methods.
It is refreshing to find a SEO expert in 2013 who isn't trying to still push old
methods of SEO that will get you in trouble with Google or other
search engines.
In an era when Google's
search wing has evolved with so many new algorithms like Panda and Penguin, you can not just rank a page with good ol'
methods like writing keyword optimized posts content or using backlinks (read my 4000 + worded guide on what are backlinks in SEO with examples to know exactly on what type
of backlinks you should be focusing to boost your rankings.
Search engine quality improved substantially but opportunistic webmasters and eventually SEOs, identified and took advantage
of as many
methods of link acquisition as possible.
Despite the constantly evolving nature
of search engines and ranking
methods, inbound links continue be a significant influence on website rankings.
Shashi Thakur
of Google replied that through both manual and algorithmic
methods, the
search engine is able to determine the nature
of a link.
Ad tech streams into audio Streaming audio providers are increasingly turning to new marketing
methods for audio advertising technology that take advantage
of smart speakers and voice
search, and with digital audio ad revenue topping $ 1.1 billion in 2016 and growing 42 percent during the first half
of 2017, creative targeting is abundant.
This
method takes just a little bit
of work, but the payoff can be huge when you uncover new and trending keywords with consistent average monthly
searches.
As Nielsen continues its efforts to truly grasp the bifurcated and fragmented
methods Americans are viewing TV programming (via linear TV, OTT devices, and more), the
search for a new standard currency has been a major point
of contention across the media ecosystem.
Affiliate marketers are constantly in
search of their next connection, and the
methods to make that happen can steer down in a multitude
of directions.
When site owners began creating artificial
methods of increasing the number
of links pointing to their sites to improve their rankings, the
search engines retaliated with link quality measures.
We do offer a wide range
of methods to view, sort,
search and track the data.
This selection
of some
of the best brokers in the business shall save you the hassle
of searching for a trustworthy broker through a «Trial and Error»
method (something you would most definitely want to avoid for the sake
of your sanity).
Note that Google trends only shows the overall trend and not the actual
search volumes, which means that some
of these
methods are still relatively popular, despite the downtrend in
search volume.
Search engines are a much more popular
method of finding information about local businesses than any other source, either online or offline.
One
of the best
methods of finding ideas is to
search through the publicly disclosed portfolio
of a well respected value mutual fund.
While link building may optimize your blog content for
search engines and increase publicity for your blog, the success
of a blog article also depends on how you tell your stories, or
methods of narration.
On Thursday, Schachter is scheduled to be in Washington, D.C., making the rounds on Capitol Hill in
search of support for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Commission and a national standard for school design, intelligence sharing and training
methods.
Not only does this
method (also outlined in our new link building book) improve your trust and authority with
search engines, but it weaves you into the culture, conversation and commerce
of your market.
Another (more recent) post from
Search Engine Watch's Julie Joyce outlines an updated list with lots
of safe
methods.
Internal Site
Search Using internal site search can also be a good method of keyword analysis if your site has a lot of traffic, as this data is information that you can a
Search Using internal site
search can also be a good method of keyword analysis if your site has a lot of traffic, as this data is information that you can a
search can also be a good
method of keyword analysis if your site has a lot
of traffic, as this data is information that you can access.
In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out
of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better
search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your bu
search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount
of times that keyword is
searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this
search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your bu
search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch
of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit
Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your bu
Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead
of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch
of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the
search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your bu
search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this
method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all
of the keywords at once and click
search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your bu
search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total
of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total
of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots
of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple
method just pasting a bunch
of keywords sitting
search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your bu
search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton
of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other
method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total
of 3.8 million
searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit
search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your bu
search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots
of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds
of thousands
of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top
of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business
Methods for acquiring links have come a long way, but they are still one
of the most important ranking factors used by the major
search engine algorithms.
Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead
of pasting a bunch
of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a
search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your
search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my
search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot
of people don't take the time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i
search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead
of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch
of keywords and hitting
search they're getting back 706 results for this sample test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other
methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new
method of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots
of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds
of thousands
of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top
of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business
As such, investors have always been in
search of a
method that will improve their results even without needing to gain expert experience.
The Rumors
of the Death
of Link Building are Greatly Exaggerated —
Search Mojo calms those thinking that link building is dead by pointing out that these new rules are cracking down on the over optimization
of anchor text, and that using link building
methods in moderation is still key.
Search engine marketing and social media work together in building visibility online, which is a change from the older traditional
methods of link building and keyword usage.
Be that as it may, in 1948, in the article Rationalistic Criterion in Metaphysics Hartshorne writes: «The
method logically appropriate to this program [i.e. the program
of metaphysics] is to experiment with diverse definitions and alternative axioms or postulates, in
search of a set — if we are so lucky as to find it — which can be given definite and consistent meaning» (RPM 438).
Its
methods may in future be improved, its presuppositions revised, but it stands firm as a self - justifying part
of the reasonable
search for knowledge, and its abandonment would be a «flight from reason».
The mistake in the traditional idealistic argument is not the
method of searching for God in reason.
In Allen's play Death, a central character is cajoled into joining a
search party for a killer on the loose but never sees any organized
method employed and is never sure
of his role in the
search.
Monasteries with their dedicated lives, Universities with their
search for knowledge, Medicine, Law,
methods of Trade — they represent that aim at civilization, whereby the conscious experience
of mankind preserves for its use the sources
of Harmony.
«1 The same writer observes that this manner
of asking the question was influenced by the scientific
method of searching for scientific data.
«And hence, in the second place, I concluded as assuredly that, in the obscurer places
of that Testament (which are very many), the best and most natural
method of searching out the sense is, to inquire how, and in what sense, those phrases and manners
of speech were understood, according to the vulgar and common dialect and opinion
of that nation; and how they took them, by whom they were spoken, and by whom they were heard.
In contrast to this «rigid
method of empiricism,» imagination will exercise an essential role in the
search for the ultimate first principles.
Jim Garrison, in The Darkness
of God: Theology After Hiroshima (SCM, 1982), has even suggested combining these two
methods of soul -
searching into a new discipline
of «psycho - theology» designed especially for the nuclear problem.
In the first place, there is a wide zone
of obscurity at the level
of the zoological surface
of hominization, seemingly impenetrable to our most
searching methods of investigating the past, in which we can discern almost no outward evidence
of the distinction between Irreflection and Reflection, although this had already been born.