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Giannotto and Abraham
Abraham, a Jew of Paris, is the friend of Giannotto di Civignì, who for years has urged him to become a Christian.
One day Abraham departs for Rome, telling Giannotto that he wants to see the leaders of the Churchthe Pope and the Curia – to decide whether or not he wants to convert.

knowing and ways
In some ways it was worth being out the money -- just knowing I was no longer obligated to Nadine!!
For example, the skills, rules, and knowledge taxonomy of human behavior has been used by designers to develop systems that are compatible with multiple " ways of knowing ": abstract analytic reasoning, experience-based ' gut feelings ', and ' craft ' sensorimotor skills.
Schopenhauer claimed that “ everything that exists for knowledge, and hence the whole of this world, is only object in relation to the subject, perception of the perceiver, in a word, representation .” According to him there can be " No object without subject " because " everything objective is already conditioned as such in manifold ways by the knowing subject with the forms of its knowing, and presupposes these forms …"
As an everyday word, theoria,, meant " a looking at, viewing, beholding ", but in more technical contexts it came to refer to contemplative or speculative understandings of natural things, such as those of natural philosophers, as opposed to more practical ways of knowing things, like that of skilled orators or artisans.
Prima scriptura suggests that ways of knowing or understanding God and his will, that do not originate from canonized scripture, are in a second place, perhaps helpful in interpreting that scripture, but testable by the canon and correctable by it, if they seem to contradict the scriptures.
The process of “ stepping out ” of a frame, out of a form of knowing – a prevailing ideology – is analogous to the work of artists as they struggle to give birth to fresh ways of seeing the world, perspectives that allow them to see aspects of the world that no artists, including themselves, have ever seen before.
Wade Davis states that languages-as not simply bodies of vocabulary or sets of grammatical rules, but " old growth forests of the mind "-for the many and unique cultures of the world reflect different ways of being, thinking, and knowing.
As Davis puts it, language extinction effectively reduces the " entire range of the human imagination ... to a more narrow modality of thought ", and thus privileges the ways of knowing in dominant ( and overwhelmingly European ) languages such as English.
* Kira Institute, focused on open inquiry in science and other ways of knowing
Schopenhauer claimed that “ everything that exists for knowledge, and hence the whole of this world, is only object in relation to the subject, perception of the perceiver, in a word, representation .” According to him there can be " No object without subject " because " everything objective is already conditioned as such in manifold ways by the knowing subject with the forms of its knowing, and presupposes these forms ….".
Susan McClary suggests that New Musicology defines music as: " a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities — even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowing how.
Lorelei has a passion for diamonds, knowing that attracting a rich husband is one of the only ways a woman of the 1950s can succeed economically.
* " Boulangisme: (...) ' a vague and mystical aspiration of a nation towards a democratic, authoritarian, liberating ideal ; the state of mind of a country that is searching, after the various deceptions to which she was exposed by the established parties which she had trusted up to then, and outside the usual ways, something else altogether, without knowing either what or how, and summoning all those who are dissatisfied and vanquished in its search for the unknown.
This work also sees sentimentality, trauma, and related public modes not as the opposite of rationality but in line with other visceral, yet cultivated ways of knowing and being attached to the world.
He also argues that we should speak of " consciousness " of God's presence, rather than of " experience ", since mystical activity is not simply about the sensation of God as an external object, but more broadly about " new ways of knowing and loving based on states of awareness in which God becomes present in our inner acts ".
Postmodern education should emphasize works not in the canon ; it should focus on the achievements of non-whites, females, and the poor ; it should highlight the historical crimes of whites, males, and the rich ; and it should teach students that science ’ s method has no better claim to yielding truth than any other method and, accordingly, that students should be equally receptive to alternative ways of knowing.
Their rubric divides history learning into three basic dimensions: major historical themes, chronological periods, and ways of knowing and thinking about history.
For example, if one knows that one should be honest, one might act in certain situations in ways that cause pain and offense ; knowing how to apply honesty in balance with other considerations and in specific contexts requires experience.
History in the show is malleable in smaller ways too, as Kurt makes a rather large bet on a football game to which he knows the outcome, but the knowledge and pressure of knowing has an adverse effect on the kicker who would have won the game, causing him to fail.
The development of design research has led to the establishment of design as a coherent discipline of study in its own right, based on the view that design has its own things to know and its own ways of knowing them.
Eastward Ho borrows from and alludes to the dramas of the popular theatre in knowing ways, as plays of the fashionable boys ' companies often did ; scholars have traced references to The Spanish Tragedy, Tamburlaine, and especially Hamlet.
This debate proposes such questions as “ Are there ‘ women ’ s ways of knowingand ‘ women ’ s knowledge ’?

knowing and Roman
The extreme end of the ideology links Sandino to Roman Catholicism and portrays him as descending from the mountains in Nicaragua knowing he would be betrayed and killed.
He issued the first proper silver coins that had appeared in the Roman Empire for generations, knowing that good quality bullion coinage would enhance his legitimacy and make him look more successful than Diocletian and Maximian.
Maurice's son Conolly Robert McCausland ( 1906-1968 ) fought in the Second World War and was reportedly so deeply moved by what he had witnessed that he was received into the Roman Catholic faith, despite knowing he had signed a codicil to his father's will barring him from inheriting should he become a Catholic.
Sincerely observing the natural law and its precepts inscribed by God on all hearts and ready to obey God, they live honest lives and are able to attain eternal life by the efficacious virtue of divine light and grace since God who clearly beholds, searches, and knows the minds, souls, thoughts, and habits of all men, because of His great goodness and mercy, will by no means suffer anyone to be punished with eternal torment who has not the guilt of deliberate sin. He saw their situation as different from that of people " living in error and alienated from the true faith and Catholic unity … stubbornly separated from the unity of the Church and also from the successor of Peter, the Roman Pontiff ," namely those of whom the Second Vatican Council said, as quoted above: " They could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.
Edward Gibbon noted that the Roman dictatorship was all the more difficult to bear due to the prior understanding and experience of political freedom-even under such late figures as Commodus, they were so famous for instance, a typical Roman magistrate or professional would be fully educated in all of the civics, ethics and morality that he saw violated all day every day around him, knowing himself to be in grave risk of his life if he raised this as an issue in public.
Roman candles are banned in some countries, like Finland, due to their tendency to accidentally cause accidents due to users of the firework not knowing how to use it properly.
But, as the dream ends, Ultima intercedes and takes on the responsibility for knowing and guarding Tony's destiny herself. His mother's dream is for him to become a Roman Catholic priest,
The Roman accuses Batman of knowing that Dent was Holiday but standing aside.
Whether, as is most likely, it originated in Rome and spread thence to the countries under direct Roman influence, or whether it originated elsewhere and was adopted by Rome, there is no means of knowing.

knowing and clergy
Thus, an illiterate person who had memorized the appropriate Psalm could also claim the benefit of clergy, and Psalm 51 became known as the neck verse, because knowing it could save one's neck by transferring one's case from a secular court, where hanging was a likely sentence, to an ecclesiastical court, where both the methods of trial and the sentences given were more lenient.

knowing and fears
Elinor fears that he no longer has feelings for her, but feels compelled, by a sense of duty, to protect her family from knowing her heartache.
Scáthach, knowing Aífe's prowess, fears for Cú Chulainn's life and gives him a powerful sleeping potion to keep him from the battle.

knowing and Abraham
He left it to the writers to choose a name and they chose " Abraham ", not knowing that it was also the name of Groening's grandfather.
Abraham, not knowing that they were angels, prepared for them a fat, roasted calf, but-to his shock-they refused to eat.
He left it to the writers to choose a name and they chose " Abraham ", not knowing that it was also the name of Groening's grandfather.

knowing and will
At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.
In other words, knowing where all the previous electrons appeared on the screen and in what order tells us nothing about where any future electron will hit, even though the probabilities at specific points can be calculated.
In the novel, Urquhart throws himself from the roof, knowing that Mattie will not hide her information.
For example, illegal insider trading would occur if the chief executive officer of Company A learned ( prior to a public announcement ) that Company A will be taken over, and bought shares in Company A knowing that the share price would likely rise.
In 1992, a study by Deirdre Barrett examined whether lucid dreams contained four " corollaries " of lucidity: knowing that one dreams, that objects will disappear after waking, that physical laws need not apply, and having clear memory of the waking world, and found less than a quarter of lucidity accounts exhibited all four.
By knowing one's customers, financial institutions will often be able to identify unusual or suspicious behavior, termed anomalies, which may be an indication of money laundering.
The breaking of My Silence will help you to help yourself in knowing your real Self.
If the key is truly random, as large as or greater than the plaintext, never reused in whole or part, and kept secret, the ciphertext will be impossible to decrypt or break without knowing the key.
A skeptic will proclaim that since one cannot have an answer to the first set of questions without first answering the second set, and one cannot hope to answer the second set of questions without first knowing the answers to the first set, we are, therefore, unable to answer either.
However, there is no way of knowing whether all participants will actually receive the message.
While serving as a color commentator for WWE Smackdown, John Layfield pointed out that a wrestler sometimes will make pin attempts early in the match, despite knowing that he has not damaged his opponent enough to win, because sometimes the point is not to get a pin, but rather to force the opponent to expend energy for later in the match.
The thought is that it will affect how people view certain products, knowing that most purchases are made on the basis of emotion.
As Marius writes in his biography of More: " To stand before a man at an inquisition, knowing that he will rejoice when we die, knowing that he will commit us to the stake and its horrors without a moment's hesitation or remorse if we do not satisfy him, is not an experience much less cruel because our inquisitor does not whip us or rack us or shout at us.
During the meal Jesus predicts his betrayal by one of the disciples present, and foretells that, before next morning, Peter will deny knowing him.
I may never again possess what I am about to part with, yet in doing it I shall have the satisfaction of knowing that the money will be well applied.
Justice Breyer argued in his dissent that it is highly unlikely any artist will be more inclined to produce work knowing their great-grandchildren will receive royalties.
The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness ; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
" Those who do battle without knowing these will lose.
It can also be used as a defensive tactic, as the batsman will feel less able to play risky shots knowing that he will be dismissed should be miss the ball.

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