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What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??
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What and is
What Hume calls `` sensation '' is what Whitehead calls `` perception in the mode of presentational immediacy '' which is a sophisticated abstraction from perception in the mode of causal efficacy.
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
For example, suppose a man wearing a $200 watch, driving a 1959 Rolls Royce, stops to ask a man on the sidewalk, `` What time is it ''??
What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.
What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.
What is simply an opinion formed in defiance of the laws of human probability, whether or not it is later confirmed, has become by September of the election year `` a firm conviction ''.
What is more, the legends have become so sacrosanct that the very habit of self-examination or self-criticism smells of low treason, and men who practice it are defeatists and unpatriotic scoundrels.
What and history
What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.
What Krim ignores, in his contempt for history and for accuracy, is that these magazines, Partisan foremost, brought about a genuine revolution in the American mind from the mid-thirties to approximately 1950.
What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.
What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history, the one which reached Christianity by the way of Stoicism through the Church Fathers of Late Antiquity.
When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??
What might have been only warmed-over topical journalism turns out to be an eyewitness contribution to history.
On the Union, historian Simon Schama said " What began as a hostile merger, would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world ... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history.
A BBC history series What the Romans Did for Us, written and presented by Adam Hart-Davis and first broadcast in 2000, takes its title from John Cleese's rhetorical question " What have the Romans ever done for us?
* What Mad Universe ( 1949 ) by Fredric Brown depicts an alternate history where humans discovered anti-gravity in 1903 and launched a war to conquer Mars, which is inhabited by creatures with a culture equal to that of Earth, but militarily weaker.
On the new kingdom, the historian Simon Schama said, " What began as a hostile merger would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world ... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history.
What little is known of the pre-European contact history of Vanuatu has been gleaned from oral histories and legends.
What is believed to be the largest E. coli O157: H7 outbreak in Oregon history occurred among attendees at the Lane County fair in 2002.
What is more, Martel cemented his place in history with his defense of Christian Europe against a Muslim army at the Battle of Tours in 732.
Throughout history this has also raised a social question: " What shall we make of those who do not agree with consensus realities of others, or of the society they live in?
What is arguably the most important part of Saxo's entire history of the Danes is the story of Amleth, the first instance of Hamlet.
" It was in this state of mind that he produced what he saw as a sequel to Man Makes Himself entitled What Happened in History ( 1942 ), a synthesis of human history from the Palaeolithic through to the fall of the Roman Empire.
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