... 2013 ARTICLES BARNETT NEWMAN’S “SENSE OF SPACE” A Noncontextualist Account of Its Perception and Meaning Michael Schreyach Dorothy Seckler: How would you define your sense of space...

...Linda Safran Elias Jamal , Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2012 ), 404 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Leor Halevi Constable Olivia Remie , To Live like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain , ed. Vose Robin , foreword by Nirenberg David ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018 ), 248 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke...

... Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 2 FUZZINESS AND PERCEPTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES Part 1: Explosive Fuzziness: The Duel Ardis Butterfield What we are seeing is not just another redrawing of the cultural map — the moving of a few disputed borders, the marking of some more...

... Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 4 FUZZINESS AND PERCEPTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES Part 2: Collective Fuzziness: Three Treaties and a Funeral Ardis Butterfield The blurry boundaries between languages in the Middle Ages were of acute political as well as linguistic and cultural...

... Press 2013 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 4 WATCH OUT FOR THINKING (EVEN FUZZY THINKING) Concept and Percept in Modern Art Richard Shiff A percept . . . does not describe itself.  — C. S. Peirce I think that if an artist...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Ritchey Sara , Holy Matter: Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity . ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2014 ), 235 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

.... —Don Seeman Israel Jacob Yuval, Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians [in Hebrew] (Tel-Aviv: Am Oved, 2000), 318 pp. Social history, sadly, needs to be more than a chronicle of human cooperation. Neither can intellectual history afford the luxury of recording only...

... gives us a fresh way of approaching primary questions about poetry and the literary. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 6 FUZZINESS AND PERCEPTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES Part 3: Translating Fuzziness: Countertexts...

... perception or imagination-enriched perception, (c) issues in the analysis of meaning down to constituent parts and the problematic legacy of atomistic approaches to word-meaning, (d) the inflection of experience across time and across context and the role of sensibility in both perception and linguistic...

... the perception that their main opposition came from Greeks who remained faithful to their traditional culture and beliefs. Hence paganism , when used by a modern author, is implicitly one-sided and also obscures the very real gap in perception between Greek speakers and Latin speakers of antiquity. Accordingly...

... crucially improper paraphrases of general observations of the variability and contingency of human perceptions, interpretations, and judgments or dismaying inferences gratuitously drawn from such observations. More recently, the label relativism has been elicited by the display, especially...

... perception, the essay stresses the complexity of such cognitive activities, including the ongoing interactions among the multiple variables presumably involved. Noting the challenge that such intrinsic complexity and inevitable interactivity present to standard dichotomies of universality and cultural...

... the perception and being of the practitioner, and thereby to ensure his or her happiness. Later in his career, Hadot, influenced by German Romanticism and above all by Goethe, turned to study the history of the concept of nature from classical to modern times. The breadth of his interests and the novelty of his...

...), suggest different angles of perception, but all represent fuzzy modes, modes that would seem to have no place in science, especially in climate science, which is pressed to be ever more precise. Yet an analysis of the genealogy of these terms and, in particular, of the differential relation between...

....” Three kinds of religious tradition in India have nurtured the perception that sound is sacred: Hindu bhakti , Sufism, and Santism, all of which this essay explores in case studies both of the formative period of devotional music in North India and of the current state of the genre and its venues...

..., as well as the general concept of the sign, were rooted in the perception of a problem too often overlooked: that of the characterization of the data in the social and cultural sciences. Just as Saussure showed that the real problem of linguistics is not, what does it mean? but what are the units...

... an account of just such a standard. Yet her argument that “other than pointing and hoping, there are no rules, no algorithms, by which human perception of a gestalt may be facilitated” sells the work of teachers short. An alternative case is made by Plato in his representation of Socrates-as-teacher...

... explores Zwicky's acknowledged debt to the paradoxes and aphorisms of Heraclitus, in whose thought the “backward-turning connection” of the lyre plays a central role. Hobbs suggests that, although both Heraclitus and Zwicky use language to stimulate profound changes in the reader's perception...

... as a cube, we must add to our own perception of a profile of the cube more possible points of view on it. The problem with this example and description is that it takes for granted that the subject already knows what she needs to see (a cube). Inspired, however, by the process philosophy of Alfred North...