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"Nature gives most of her evidence in answer to the questions we ask her."

"We can no longer dismiss the change of a Models as a simple progression from error to truth. No Model is a catalogue of ultimate realities, and none is a mere fantasy. Each...attempts to get in all the phenomena known at a given period, and each succeeds in getting in a great many. But...no less surely, each reflects the prevalent psychology of an age almost as much as it reflects the state of that age's knowledge."

"the demand for a developing world-a demand obviously in harmony both with the revolutionary and the romantic temper-grows up first; when it is full grown the scientists go to work and discover the evidence on which our belief in that sort of universe would now be held to rest."

"Literature exists to teach what is useful, to honour what deserves honour, to appreciate what is delightful. The useful, honourable, and delightful things are superior to it: it exists for their sake; its own use, honor or delightfulness is derivative from theirs."

"Many generations, each in its own spirit and its own style, have contributed to the story of Arthur. It is misleading to think of Malory as an author in our modern sense and throw all the earlier work into the category of 'sources'. He is merely the last builder, doing a few demolitions here and adding a few features there."

"It follows that the book-author unit, basic for modern criticism, must often be abandoned when we are dealing with medieval literature. Some books...must be regarded more as we regard those cathedrals where work of many different periods is mixed and produces a total effect, admirable indeed but never foreseen nor intended by any one of the successive builders."

"...a life of unmitigated ratio, where nothing was simply 'seen' and all had to be proved, would presumably be impossible; for nothing can be proved if nothing is self-evident."

...through it, so does he. Did you know that the distinction came from the philosophical thought of the middle ages? I didn't.

"We are enjoying intellectus when we 'just see' a self-evident truth; we are exercising ratio when we proceed step by step to prove a truth which is not self-evident. A cognitive life in which all truth can be simply 'seen' would be the life of an intelligentia, an angel....

I am consistently amazed by how little I know. Today I am left with a feeling of respect for other authors which have somehow managed to imbibe the meaning and beliefs of past ages and then pour them forth into their own work. Take Harry Dresden for a moment, he makes friends with the intellectus of the Island in Lake Michigan. He explains it as a spirit that knows everything about it's little island, and...

"Virtue is tarnished if a man displays it so as to get credit for it."

Boethius I Pros. III, P. 140.

...could conclude that the author caused specific sentence final particles to come into use for a specific subgroup of people.

But...there are other characters in Naruto, lots of them, and what do they do? Talk like normal Japanese people. If we look at the language produced by all the characters and not just Naruto, we would see that on average the characters mirror actual people's speech, not the other way around

Furthermore, there are plenty of instances in modern Japanese literature where an author manipulates language in order to give a subset of characters a specific linguistic 'tic' that sets them apart from other characters. A great one is Naruto with his 'dattebayo'. It sets him apart from other characters and is a particle that no one used in real life before the author created it, if we only look at Naruto, we...

Even as she is pointing out that we don't actually know if women actually spoke like this at that period, and even if they did we couldn't know if women spoke like this and then the novels were written, or if the novels were written and then woman spoke like this, or if they had any relationship at all. It's purely conjecture.

I know I've said this before, but I can't believe I found these authors convincing in grad school. I accepted what she said: that the female dialect of Japanese was created, not that it arose naturally, but that it was created by novelists in the Meiji era.

Her proof? Meiji novels.

Wow, that's a major inflation of the data on the prior page: "It is noteworthy, first of all, that the gender-neutral final particles in Ukiyoburo have become gendered into either female exclusive or male-exclusive in Sanshiro." (100 years later)

No.
First: there were male and female exclusive particles in ukiyoburo
2nd: there were 14 neutral. Of those 14, 6 become gendered. That's not 50%. Hardly conclusive.

I do so love lewis.

"In our age, I think it would be fair to say that the ease with which a scientific theory assumes the dignity and rigidity of fact varies inversely with the individual's scientific education. In discussion with wholly uneducated audiences I have sometimes found matter which real scientists would regard as highly speculative, more firmly believed than many things within our real knowledge."

The real reason why Copernicus raised no ripple and Galileo raised a storm, may well be that, whereas the one offered a new suppose about celestial motions, the other insisted on treating the supposal as fact. If so, the real revolution consisted not in a new theory of the heavens but in 'a new theory of the nature of theory'.

When people live in encapsulated worlds, it becomes difficult for them, even with the best of intentions, to grasp the realities of rules with which they have little experience, but over which they also have great influence both public and private.

The future of the church, the nation, and the world depends-to an extent we scarcely conceive of-on the education of our youth. The church may be seeking to evangelize the lost, while it is giving up on its own children to secular and materialistic influences. Pray for your schools and colleges. Pray for the faculty, those who most influence the young in these halls of learning.

After Paul had preached the gospel for 20 years he still asked for prayer that he might speak as he ought to speak. Not once for all, not for time, but day-by-day and without ceasing, grace must be sought for the work.

He just said Zecharia and Elisabeth are Old testament saints....gotta be a typo....

He would have us know that in prayer all will not be so easy and smooth. We must expect difficulties which can be conquered only by persistent determined perseverance.

Nothing but persistent, believing prayer can meet the onslaught of the spirit of worldliness that is reported everywhere.

If we desire to grow from strength to strength and to experience God's power and sanctification and blessing and others, we must be more persevering in prayer.

All I want out of life is a book but I can learn something from without being like: the heck you say? Case in point: "Our King is glorified in intercession; and we too will find our highest glory in it. He continues His saving work in fact, He can do nothing without it."

God, the almighty God , the omnipotent God can do nothing without our prayer... Seems a little human centric. Just a tad.