 | Hans Mark - 1984 - 332 pages
...simulator is used to defined the handling qualities of new aircraft for many purposes ranging from FAA certification to aircraft carrier landings. US National...Of course, there are measurable things — reports, 88 io«r 1010-- 10 1 100 years 1 10 years 19OO fryer DC 1 Shuttle DC-8 B52. B29X 707^727 "DC 7 DC3... | |
 | 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. 
