“Is there a rigorous and scientific concept of context? Stating it in the most summary manner possible a context is never absolutely determinable, or rather its determination can never be entirely certain or saturated.”— Jacques Derrida, lab404.com
“All observational claims made about the object are made in some perspective or other. Before the seventeenth century, the Milky Way, as part of a commonsense perspective on the world, was perceived using human eyes simply as a broad band of light extending across the night sky. From the perspective…”— Ronald N. Giere, amazon.com
“Total explicitness is impossible. The effort of formal logic to make thought entirely explicit, while an admirable and in many ways indispensable and fantastically productive effort, is ultimately doomed to failure and entails deep psychological strain because of its unreality. Thought can only be m…”— Walter Ong, amazon.com
“Objects can’t be presented directly because they are not inert but parts of a process, and the relations between things are important than the things themselves.”— Jacob Korg, amazon.com
“You believe that solutions emerge from judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality (judiciously, as you will), we’ll act again, creating other realit…”— David Shields, amazon.com