 | Hans Mark - 1984 - 324 pages
...simulator is used to defined the handling qualities of new aircraft for many purposes ranging from FA A certification to aircraft carrier landings. US National...Of course, there are measurable things — reports. 10'r IV 1CH 10 100 years WnghI fryer Shunte B-52, B-47 707727 £:•• OC-7 DC 1 :O~B.i7 DC3 190O... | |
 | Paul Ricoeur - 1990 - 292 pages
..."how." We know by heart the cry uttered by Augustine on the threshold of his meditation: "What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that...asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled" (14: 17). In this way the ontological paradox opposes language not only to the skeptical argument but... | |
 | Michèle Le D uff - 1989 - 228 pages
...Augustine. The standard citation here is the well-known admission of impotence in Book XI: 'What is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that...asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.' I prefer the question in chapter XV: 'My Lord, my Light, does not your truth make us look foolish in... | |
 | Oswald Hanfling - 1989 - 218 pages
...what we are talking about when we do so. (He quotes a famous passage from Augustine: 'What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that...asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled' (Confessions XI/14, Penguin, 264).) In another passage he considers the self or T. Is there an essential... | |
 | Stephen Alan Anderson, Dennis A. Bagarozzi - 1989 - 234 pages
...trying to answer the question "What is myth?" St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions, "I know very well what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked and try to explain, I am baffled" (as quoted in Ruthven, 1976, p. 1). As family therapists have tried... | |
 | Jacques Le Goff - 1992 - 300 pages
...philosophical questions about time, of which Augustine's acknowledgment is representative: "What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that...asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled" (Confessions, XI, 14; Starr 1966:2425). Reflecting on Marshall McLuhan's famous book, The Gutenberg... | |
 | Jürgen Moltmann - 1993 - 388 pages
...admitted that he found it difficult to define what time really is: 'What then is time?' he enquires. 'I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody...if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.'1 SI TIME AS THE REPETITION OF ETERNITY Mircea Eliade has looked at time in the context of... | |
 | Edward S. Casey - 1993 - 444 pages
...remarkably modern question: "What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that no one asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled." 50 Twentieth-century thinkers such as Husscrl and Waismann still repeat this aporetic Augustinian question... | |
 | Edward S. Casey - 1993 - 444 pages
...remarkably modern question: "What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that no one asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled."50 Twentieth-century thinkers such as Husserl and Waismann still repeat this aporetic Augustinian... | |
 | Jonathan Westphal, Carl Avren Levenson - 1993 - 264 pages
...interest in the problem of time. "I know well enough what time is, provided nobody asks me to explain. But if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled." When St. Augustine looks for time, he cannot find it. He looks for the past, but it has already gone.... | |
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What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled. 
