Sentences with phrase «particular knowers»

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If one still wanted to know about the knower and the knower's experience, this could be treated in a secondary way as a particular form of the body or a relation of the body to external objects.

She calls it «strong objectivity,» and its particular strength rests of the participation of many knowers, beginning with the least favored, and requires a commitment to critical examination of the causes of beliefs, especially those that pass for «objective truths.

The universal structure of the universe is not given, as in most other forms of theology; it is in part constructed and deconstructed by the knower's particular interests and actions.

9Monism for James meant «either the mere name One, the universe of discourse; or it means the sum total of all the ascertainable particular conjunctions and concatenations; or, finally, it means some one vehicle of conjunction treated as all - inclusive, like one origin, one purpose, or one knower» (PRAG 74).

The early modern view of knowers as conditioned only by the known has given place to a far more insightful understanding of every act of knowledge as conditioned by the particular historical, cultural, economic, gender, and racial situation.