The Visible and the Legible

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Judovitz
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Falling Asleep

This chapter is focused on recurrent representations of books and acts of reading as pictorial subject matter in La Tour’s works. Several scenes of reading are examined starting with St. Jerome reading a letter, the Virgin Mary learning how to read, St. Joseph’s falling asleep while reading, and St. Alexis identified after his death on basis of a letter he holds in his hands. It presents an analysis of the ways words determine how we see and the role of reading as a figure for spiritual illumination understood as a way of seeing that challenges the realm of painterly expression. La Tour’s appeal to the word and the legible casts doubt on knowledge attained through vision in its reliance on visual signs. Indeed, reading as a figure for spiritual illumination challenges and opens up a conceptual redefinition of the visual realm of painterly expression.

Aboutness

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Yablo
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Philosophical Methodology ◽  
Major Advance ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Made In

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to operationalize the notion. However, it has played no real role in philosophical semantics, which is surprising. This is the first book to examine through a philosophical lens the role of subject matter in meaning. A long-standing tradition sees meaning as truth conditions, to be specified by listing the scenarios in which a sentence is true. Nothing is said about the principle of selection—about what in a scenario gets it onto the list. Subject matter is the missing link here. A sentence is true because of how matters stand where its subject matter is concerned. This book maintains that this is not just a feature of subject matter, but its essence. One indicates what a sentence is about by mapping out logical space according to its changing ways of being true or false. The notion of content that results—directed content—is brought to bear on a range of philosophical topics, including ontology, verisimilitude, knowledge, loose talk, assertive content, and philosophical methodology. The book represents a major advance in semantics and the philosophy of language.

scholarly journals The Metamorphosis of Written Devotion in the Age of Vatican II (c. 1948–c. 1998) in Hungary—Guestbooks in Hungarian Marian Shrines

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Krisztina Frauhammer
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Combined Effect ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Personal Prayer ◽  
The Church

This article presents the Hungarian manifestations of a written devotional practice that emerged in the second half of the 20th century worldwide: the rite of writing prayers in guestbooks or visitors’ books and spontaneously leaving prayer slips in shrines. Guestbooks or visitors’ books, a practice well known in museums and exhibitions, have appeared in Hungarian shrines for pilgrims to record requests, prayers, and declarations of gratitude. This is an unusual use of guestbooks, as, unlike regular guestbook entries, they contain personal prayers, which are surprisingly honest and self-reflective. Another curiosity of the books and slips is that anybody can see and read them, because they are on display in the shrines, mostly close to the statue of Virgin Mary. They allow the researcher to observe a special communication situation, the written representation of an informal, non-formalised, personal prayer. Of course, this is not unknown in the practice of prayer; what is new here is that it takes place in the public realm of a shrine, in written form. This paper seeks answers to the question of what genre antecedents, what patterns of behaviour, and which religious practices have led to the development of this recent practice of devotion in the examined period in Hungarian Catholic shrines. In connection with this issue, this paper would like to draw attention to the combined effect of the following three factors: the continuity of traditions, the emergence of innovative elements and the role of the church as an institution. Their parallel interactions help us to understand the guestbooks of the shrines.

scholarly journals The role of schemas and scripts in pictorial narration

Semiotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ranta
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Schema Theory ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
Event Sequences ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Generalized Knowledge

Abstract The theoretical debate on the nature of narrative has been mainly concerned with literary narratives, whereas forms of non-literary and especially pictorial narrativity have been somewhat neglected. In this paper, however, I shall discuss narrativity specifically with regard to pictorial objects in order to clarify how pictorial storytelling may be based on the activation of mentally stored action and scene schemas. Approaches from cognitive psychology, such as the work of Schank, Roger C. & Robert P. Abelson. 1977. Scripts, plans, goals and understanding. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; Mandler, Jean Matter. 1984. Stories, scripts, and scenes: Aspects of schema theory. London/Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum; Schank, Roger C. 1995. Tell me a story: Narrative and intelligence. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, suggest that cognition crucially depends on the storage and retrieval of action scripts or schemata, that is, narrative structures, which may occur at various levels of abstraction. These schemas incorporate generalized knowledge about event sequences, such as the order in which specific events will take place; causal, enabling, or conventionalized relations between these events, and what kind of events occur in certain action sequences. There also are scene schemas that are characterized by spatial rather than temporal relations. Further kinds of schemas seem also to play a decisive role. Drawing upon considerations from schema and script theory, I will focus on some concrete examples of pictorial narration, more specifically depictions of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, where narrative schema structures become involved and, indeed, the comprehensibility of the pictures as such presuppose mental script representations.

Role of Option of Defect in Tenders: A Study under Omani Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Maen Mohammad al-Qassaymeh ◽  
Nayel Musa Shaker al-Omran
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Bilateral Contracts ◽  
Governmental Body ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Injured Party

Abstract Option of defect is an important theory regulated in Omani Civil Law. It gives the injured party in bilateral contracts an option to rescind the contract if they find a defect in the subject matter of the contract. This theory is deemed a legal basis to refuse objects of sale by tender. In particular, it is useful when a guarantee that is given to the governmental body is insufficient to cover damages, due to bad performance of the contract. This article discusses how the option of defect is applied to sale by tender in Omani law.

scholarly journals The Analysis Of The Students’ Difficulty in Memorizing English Vocabulary in Elementary School

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewi Ulya Mailasari
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Main Role ◽  
High Level ◽  
Compulsory Subject

<p class="05IsiAbstrak">This article describes the students’ difficulty in memorizing English vocabulary in Integrated Islamic Elementary School (SDIT) Amal Insani Jepara.  This study uses a descriptive qualitative method. The result denotes that students have difficulties in memorizing vocabulary including there is no visible intrinsic motivation from students, considering English as just another compulsory subject. In addition to the factors of integration and talent, it seems that attitudinal and motivational factors take the main role of the difficulties of students of SDIT Amal Insani in remembering English vocabulary. Students with a high level of intelligence coupled with high enthusiasm, because there is a reward from the teacher, easy to remember vocabulary as well as remembering other subject matter. Students with a priori and low motivation attitude find it difficult to remember the vocabulary that has been given.</p>

scholarly journals An Abbey as a Stronghold

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-271
Author(s):  
Hrvoje Kekez
Keyword(s):  
Virgin Mary ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Blessed Virgin Mary ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Large Estate ◽  
Do So

The main goal of this paper is to analyze the strategic role of Cistercian abbey of Blessed Virgin Mary in Topusko (medieval Toplica) in anti-Ottoman defense during 16th century, especially because it is rather exceptional of usage sacral complex in anti-Ottoman defense system in rather long period. In order to do so it is determined and analyzed strategic importance of the monastic complex in anti-Ottoman defense line and the change of it according to ever going Ottoman conquest of new territories, i.e. approaching of the bordering line. Furthermore, the organization of defense of the rather large estate of Topusko abbey as well as the changes of the monastic fortifications are addressed. Even more, the role of the commendatory abbots of the abbey, as well the serves of the abbey, in the larger efforts in composing and functioning of the anti-Ottoman defense line are analyzed. Finally, the proximate time and context of the final abandoning of the former Cistercian abbey is determined.

scholarly journals Colour Studies: Clarification and Alpha-Numeric Adaptation of Notation Systems for Artists and Designers

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-148
Author(s):  
ZS Ebigbagha
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Creative Construction

Colour studies have generated much confusion in art and design education, particularly among students of the discipline in Nigeria. This is due to the complexity of the subject matter itself, wide-range of available materials and a variety of concepts developed in its multi-disciplinarity that is not kept distinct. Therefore, this paper utilizes a qualitative approach that employs the critical, historical, and analytic examination to provide clarification on the constructive and expressive aspects of colour studies. The paper introduces the reader to the pivotal role of colour and its multi-disciplinary interest. Also, it adequately clarifies paradigms and theories in the physical, psychophysical and psychological domains with particular emphasis on areas of practical value to art and design. Moreover, it considers the numeric adaptation of the colour wheel to a set of numbers for harmonic relationship. And it ends with the need for artists and designers to comprehensively grasp the contextual behaviour of colour and develop colour originality through creative construction and effective use in order to successfully express themselves in colour.

scholarly journals Tematikken i veiledningssamtaler: forgrunn og bakgrunn

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sissel Østrem
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Subject Matter Knowledge ◽  
Mentor Teacher ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Point Of Departure

Denne artikkelen setter søkelys på fagdidaktikkens plass i veiledningssamtaler med lærerstudenter og nyutdannede lærere. Utgangspunktet er to studier der tematikken i veiledningssamtaler ble undersøkt gjennom språkets utpekende funksjon. Orientering rundt fagdidaktikk var lite framtredende i disse samtalene, og i stedet dominerte generelle didaktiske spørsmål. Forskningsspørsmålene innebærer en undring over hvorfor forhold ved fagene ikke blir tydeligere uttrykt i yrkesfaglig veiledning, og samtidig stiller jeg spørsmål om hvordan veiledning eventuelt kan bidra til at fagdidaktiske spørsmål blir belyst. Jeg hevder at noviser trenger hjelp til å rette blikket mot vesentlige spørsmål som gjelder yrkesutøvelsen, der også fagdidaktikk må inngå. En mer pågående veilederrolle enn det som ser ut til å være dagens praksis, blir av den grunn foreslått og diskutert.Nøkkelord: yrkesfaglig veiledning, læringspotensial, didaktikk, fagdidaktikk, språkets utpekende funksjon, veilederrollenAbstractThis article highlights subject matter knowledge in mentoring conversations and takes its point of departure in two studies where the topics in mentoring conversations were investigated through the use language. General didactic concerns dominated the conversations at the expense of themes related to subject matter. Astonishment about this fact led to the research questions focusing on the reasons for the lack of concerns about subject matter knowledge in mentoring. How mentoring eventually can contribute in giving subjects, a more prominent position in such conversations is discussed. Novices need help to keep the importance of subject matter knowledge in mind when discussing the most substantial questions in teaching. A more dynamic mentor role is suggested and discussed.Key words: mentoring, didactics, role of mentor teacher

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