Possible Explanation of Kierkegaard’s Reasoning
As some philosophers suggest, an individual may only know what he knows through experience. What is sensed equals what is known. Because we understand things through our senses, then what we understand must also be expressed through our senses. We represent that knowledge through language. Language is a means of transferring our experiences to a concrete, literal form, so the sensuous can be made known in the psyche. To describe a snake (itself a linguistic representation of my experience), I might use the word, “slimy,” thus, I have distinguished one feeling from another feeling.
Language also informs our perceptions of an object. We hear the sound of a word, and our brains conjur an image of the object the word represents. This image is then transferred into our own experience. If I say, “slimy,” you may think of mud or butter or a kiss, not necessarily a snake. These images are not right or wrong, but are based on your experiences. You will think of those things until, through my comparison of a snake to other objects and characteristics you do know, you can understand another thing that could possibly represent the word, “slimy.”
What if someone wishes to discuss something outside of sensual or intellectual human experience? Because we cannot escape the use of sensual-psychic language to explain experience and knowledge of experience, even an experience beyond the sensual-psychic must be expressed through the common language that is received through the ear and processed through the brain.
Jesus knew this full well, choosing to speak in parables rather than outlining theories and spiritual realities. We listen better to stories with objects and plots we can understand. His audience identified with agriculture, shepherding, wedding feasts, and inheritances. And although he knew the people could not comprehend the fullness of meaning behind his stories, storytelling was the most effective way to shed any light on the world of the spirit.
As Paul Tillich says, once we take literally the language we use to represent “ultimate concerns” (things of the spirit), then we have made language into an idol ____________. Kierkegaard predated Tillich with his statement that “all human language about the spiritual . . . is essentially transferred or metaphorical language”(199). To prevent our understanding of language from remaining in the literal or sensuous-psychic state, and thus becoming idolatrous, then we must see it as a symbol, participating in the actual, but not the actual itself __________.
implacability of the natural world, the impartial perfection ofscience, the heartbreak of history. The narrative is permeated with insights about language itself, its power to distort and destroy meaning, and to restore it again to those with stalwart hearts.
Primarly, cerebral edema occurs in children. Studies show that the largest reported cases are 95% with patients younger than 20 years of age. One third of these cases occur in patients younger than 5 years of age. Generally, after the initiation of therapy, within 3-12 hours it occur in children who seem to be metabolically returning to normal. (Pandey) Insulin was discovered in 1922, prior to, “the moratality due to DKA was virtually 100%. With the discovery of insulin, antiboiotics, intravenous potassium replacement and use of norepinephrine for blood pressure support, mortality rates ranging from 2.5%...
At sometime between 4:45 p.m. (Regina: The Early Years, 2014) to 5:00 p.m. (Saskatchewan Archives Board, 2011) local time on Dominion Day, June 30, 1912, a funnel cloud, and possibly a second funnel cloud which dissipated early on, touched down 18 km to the south of Regina, Saskatchewan, near 50.4547° N, 104.6067° W (see Figure 1), and travelled north along the ground (see Figure 2). The tornado, popularly called the Regina Cyclone, first cut through several farmlands, then Wascana Lake, before hitting downtown Regina (Heidorn, K.C., 2008), and continued to travel 12 km north past the city of Regina until it subsided (Saskatchewan Archives Board, 2011). The tornado was three blocks wide (Heidorn, K.C., 2008), and managed to demolish farms, residential areas, the downtown core, and the warehouse and railway districts (CBC, 2013). It traversed the city in about three minutes (Regina Public Library, 2007).
Primarily, cerebral edema occurs in children. Studies show that the largest reported cases are 95% within patient’s younger than 20 years of age. One third of these cases occurs in patient’s younger than 5 years of age. Generally, after the initiation of therapy, within 3-12 hours it occurs in children who seem to be metabolically returning to normal (Pandey). Insulin was discovered in 1922, prior to, “the mortality due to DKA was virtually 100%. With the discovery of insulin, antibiotics, intravenous potassium replacement and use of norepinephrine for blood pressure support, rates ranging from 2....
From the most basic of functions like recognition and storage to the complexities of discourse and cultural expression, language functions are an integral and pervasive component of the human experience. In these pages I have sought to describe the operation of the six language functions through the analogy of a figure skater and a dancer. Each skill builds upon the next to weave the intricate set of skills and abilities that humans have uniquely developed to share information and each other’s experiences of the world.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by President Barack Obama is a significant change of the American healthcare system since insurance plans programs like Medicare and Medicaid (“Introduction to”). As a result, “It is also one of the most hotly contested, publicly maligned, and politically divisive pieces of legislation the country has ever seen” (“Introduction to”). The Affordable Care Act should be changed because it grants the government too much control over the citizen’s healthcare or the lack of individual freedom to choose affordable health insurance.
Fair Trade laws are enacted to provide an equal opportunity in the marketplace for developing countries and small producers of goods. To protect their financial economies, .governments intervene by placing huge taxes and quotas on exports, to restricting producers who try to flood the markets with their products. This intervention also helps those producers who are facing unfair trading practices. Companies who provide cheaper made products, can cause a deficit for any country by flooding their economy with these exports. Fair trade prevent this and provides developing countries with the opportunity to provide merchandise that is not readily provided to the consumer. Fair trade helps provides jobs in developing countries and protect them from the abuses of monopolization. To solve this problem, there must be a fair exchange for goods and services. If these practices are allowed to continue, we as the consumer, will be paying higher prices at the stores.
The mental and physical processes that work together is what creates the ability for the mind to properly perceive the information that is received. The brain and the senses interact in such a way that gives the mind freedom to interpret this information into the individual’s own reality. Without this combination of influences, it would mean that the mind does not go beyond the information given because it would simply be a biological function and the unique interpretation of events could not happen. But since the mental and physical processes do work together the mind takes the information that is received and the mind constructs different interpretations of the sensory information. There are many ways where this can be advantageous. In one way, the mind creating interpretations of information is what allows for individuality and for different opinions in situations. Without the interpretations it would seem that human perception of events would be identical in every way. But besides the advantages there are also disadvantages, such as the fact that there are many ways in which th...
Here are the facts I found in recent research about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Americans view health care as a top priority and mostly, they will spend substantial dollars of the nation’s wealth to fund and support a system found to be of high standards and one of excellency (Williams & Torrens, 2008). The original piece of legislation known as the ACA was signed and passed into law on March 23, 2010 under President Barack Obama (Leimbigler & Lammert, 2016). The plan came at a time in American history when there were millions of Americans that were left without health insurance and many others that were denied coverage due to pre-existing health conditions (Pagel, Bates, Goldmann & Koller, 2017). Another issue that plagued the country
Everyone has experienced hearing a language they do not understand. In that context, the words seem to consist of a meaningless series of sounds; this is often ascribed to the listener not knowing the definitions of the vocabulary used. However, in addition to not being familiar with the words said, a person who does not understand the language will hear and process the sounds differently than a native speaker. This fact is partially explained by categorial perception, a perceptual-learning phenomenon in which the categories of different stimuli possessed by an individual affect his or her perception.
Language is both a blessing and a curse. Without it, we couldn't share and receive information vital to our existence. Language not only develops in conjunction with society’s historical, economic and political evolution, but also reflects that society’s attitudes and thinking. It surrounds us, shapes our thoughts and is being shaped in turn. But are we its masters or its slaves? Whether we like it or not, we live our lives under the spell of language. Language is how we communicate and understand the world around us. The possession of language is powerful and unconscious in the human brain. We wield the power of speech with nothing more than mere nonchalance. Even thousands of years after we discovered language, we still unconsciously feel that if a thought is spoken or put in print, it somehow assumes greater significance (Sletto).
Compared to the more radical Nominalist and Relativist positions, the Qualified Relativist position is the most reasonable, as it seeks middle ground in the connection between language and thought. This position makes the most convincing argument for language and perception because while it agrees with the Relativist view that the structure of language plays a part in shaping thought processes, it also acknowledges that there are other factors other than language that contribute to this. As the reading suggests, if language fully determines perception, then “language must precede, and only subsequently influence, thought” (Nature of Language, p. 156). It is also evident that factors other than language factor into ...
language can allow us to communicate an exact idea or to persuade others to one
Language is a part of our everyday lives, and we can describe the meaning of language in many ways. As suggested in Gee and Hayes (2011, p.6 ) people can view language as something in our minds or something existing in our world in the form of speech, audio recordings, and writings or we can view language as a way of communicating with a group of people. Language can be used to express our emotions, make sense of our mental and abstract thoughts and assists us in communicating with others around us. Language is of vital importance for children to enable them to succeed in school and everyday life. Everyone uses both oral and written language. Language developed as a common ability amongst human beings with the change
A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be more than one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. In the body of my essay, I will tell you about types of tornadoes, where tornadoes come from, where and when tornadoes occur, the damage they inflict, variations of tornadoes, and how to detect tornadoes.