Word: schemata
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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Nelson Goodman, well-known professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "Some Technical Differentia Among Schemata" at a Center for Cognitive Studies colloquium, at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Allston Burr...
...heads the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. They were assigned choice pensioni close to the Vatican (at Vatican expense) and the best seats in St. Peter's at all sessions, including secret ones. Most impressive of all, the observers were given copies of the Schemata-the supersecret council agenda that has been seen by no one but the council fathers. "When I heard that they had the Schemata. I almost fell over,'' said an American monsignor. Replied Anglican Canon Bernard C. Pawley matter-of-factly: "If we didn't have the Schemata...
...story as if it were a stage piece, not a screen play. One wants to praise him for his blocking, for the gestures he has devised, or certainly for the quick and effective dramatic transitions he has directed, but such refinements continually have little relevance to Visconti's visual schemata...
...that religion traffics in factless faith. The quote from Dr. Van Ness sums it up perfectly: "Any time religious beliefs come into conflict with the things we learn about the world, we must modify the beliefs." Any number of the scientific concepts we accept today may be simply convenient schemata that impose order upon the experiences we have collected so far. They may have little or no relation to "reality." The suspicion has been growing among many scholars during the past few decades that we are not so much "discovering" our scientific theories as we are "inventing" them...