The term 'catholic' (katholikos, a Greek word adopted by the Latin Church) does not mean universal (that is, 'inclusive,' 'encompassing,' and hence by implication to some degree bounding) but rather, in its Greek etymology, kata + holos, through-the-whole, outgoing, expansive.
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Walter Ong
Total explicitness is impossible. The effort of formal logic to make thought entirely explicit, while an admirable and in many ways indispensable and fantastically productive effort, is ultimately doomed to failure and entails deep psychological strain because of its unreality. Thought can only be…
Hypervisualism tends to neglect this truth and even sets out to reduce sound itself, and for that matter all the other senses, to vision through devices such as charts and wave measurements, mathematical or oscillographic, forgetting that none of these make any noise and that hence, however…
Openness does not mean lack of organization, lack of principle, or lack of all resistance. For the human being, at least, it means quite the contrary: the strengthening of organization, principles, and resistance where needed, so that interaction with the outside can be strong and real. Indeed,…
Homo sapiens has been in existence for between 30,000 and 50,000 years. The earliest script dates from only 6000 years ago.
We have all heard it said that one picture is worth a thousand words. Yet, if this statement is true, why does it have to be a saying? Because a picture is worth a thousand words only under special conditions—which commonly include a context of words in which the picture is set.
The articulate remains always embedded in the inarticulate.
Science itself is always incomplete articulation.
What was earlier inviolably intimate or totally inaccessible is often now on total public display.
There is no way to break down into individual articulated items the absolute totality of even one person’s history, much less of the entirety of human existence or of the entire universe—or even of a baseball game.
We can keep our thinking and experiments as logical as possible, but the truth has to be worked out to some degree at random and then tested for logicality after we have stumbled on it by ways which may well involve some logic but involve much more besides.
Order is often a very desirable good and can be indispensable to intelligence and understanding, but to reduce intelligence simply to order is to trivialize intelligence.
Something is always concealed. For no manifestation reveals everything, and interpretation, no matter how carefully formulated, can never be total in its verbal formulation.
What was earlier inviolably intimate or totally inaccessible is often now on total public display.