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41 pages of results. 291. The Jewish Science of Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... goals- the revival of Hebrew and the establishment of an academy- as ways to operationalize their ideals of Hebrew national revival and moral regeneration. One of their most influential spokesmen was Ha-Shiloah editor Ahad Ha'am, who, for example, told a 1902 Minsk conference: By establishing one high school for science or art in Palestine, and one academy for linguistics and literature, we approach the goal sooner than with 100 agricultural colonies, because colonies constitute merely stones for the future structure, whereas a higher center for scientific forces and creative talents is bound to revitalize the spirit of the entire people, and to rejuvenate our entire national property. (11) Simon Velikovsky, who embraced and worked ...
292. Whence Homo? [Journals] [Aeon]
... a situation had an edge. Thus natural selection resulted in the enlargement of the frontal areas of the brain, where higher mental activities take place, along with the temporal lobes, where speech is controlled." (36) Another "( not-so-)plausible story." As for speech, we know nothing of the language or linguistic capability, if any, of Homo erectus. (37) Based on the foregoing observation, it is likely that this capability was lacking. Moreover, Edmund White notes that: "The anatomy of Homo erectus' vocal tract was probably more like an ape's, smaller and less flexible than a modern human one. He could make ...
293. Thoth Vol I, No. 10: April 22, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Sun. The same can be said for the older Shamash and Ra: the names of these gods became the names for the solar orb. But that's where the connection with our Sun ends and the mystery of Saturn, the Universal Monarch, begins. In seeking to explain the curious confusion of the sun and Saturn, late nineteenth century linguists came up with a simple explanation: The confusion, they said, was the result of the similarity of the Greek name Helios to the Greek rendering of the Phoenician god El, a god identified with Kronos, the planet Saturn. So it was all just a misunderstanding of language. But this explanation could not survive more than a ...
294. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Italy in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The development of movable type was gaining momentum dramatically at this time, and was as subject to demand in determining its products as it is today. The subject matter inherited a legacy of scribal problems accrued by copyists over the previous centuries. During the late fourteenth and through the fifteenth centuries linguistic changes in the vernaculars did little to alleviate this. The enthusiasm for the "recovery" of the classics was not over concerned with textural accuracy, in its earliest wave. The preoccupations in subject matter shown in the Rederijkers, Grands Rhetoriqueurs, Meistersangers and the evolving Bardic tradition of the time in the Scandinavian and Celtic cultures shows this ...
295. Thoth Vol III, No. 5: March 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... The cumulative growth of knowledge represented by the articulation of a theory is occasionally interrupted by a jump to a more inclusive or more appropriate viewpoint, much as plateaus in a learning curve are separated by episodes of sudden insight into a larger understanding. This trait of human cognition that erects the successive edifices of theory is a common ground underlying their linguistic incommensurability. Knowledge is not "just the facts" nor "just theory" but a judgement about the relationship between facts and theory. And theories compete on this level of judgement: The criterion is not "which theory best fits the facts" but "which combination of facts and theory is most appropriate and promising for which purposes ...
296. Thoth Vol III, No. 13: Oct 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... goes directly from the French to Latin astrum' and Greek astron'. In fact, according to this dictionary, until 1669, disaster' had the sense an obnoxious planet'! ROGER WESCOTT jumps in: Ted Bond rightly perceives a connection between Indo-European nouns cognate with English "star" and Semitic names like Akkadian Ishtar. Most historical linguists, adhering to conventional chronology, either descry lexical coincidence here or derive the I.E . from the Sem. forms. I am inclined, rather, to regard the Sem. forms as borrowings from I.E ., for 4 reasons: (1 ) these forms are wide-spread in I.E . but not in ...
297. Thoth Vol III, No. 17: Dec 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... standards developed by B. J. F. Lonergan in his book, _Insight_. The Canon of Selection requires a theory to involve sensible, observable consequences. In accord with this, the data of the Saturn Theory are the words, written and spoken, of the myths of all cultures, their ritual and cultural contexts, linguistic associations and etymologies, and the associated artistic expressions such as pictographs, ceramics, and architecture. The Canon of Operations involves an accumulation of insights from observations, applications, and experiments. The Saturn Theory verifies the existence of expected themes from one myth and culture to the next. It modifies the generalization of those themes by the comparative ...
298. Thoth Vol III, No. 18: Dec 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , Cardona has presented a small fraction of the mytho-historical evidence. In the next sections, he will discuss some of the physical evidence. For some of the symbolic evidence, see Ev Cochrane's article at: http://www.ames.net/aeon/Rock_Art/rock_art.html For more about the linguistic evidence, see Dave Talbott's articles, HOW CATASTROPHIC EVENTS GENERATE LANGUAGE, and THE MYTHIC ROOTS OF LANGUAGE in THOTH III-14, III-15, and III-16.- SATURN 101 By Amy Acheson Discussion by Bob Johnson, Michael Armstrong, Ev Cochrane First of all, the Saturn Theory is an absurd theory, "bizarre in the extreme" according ...
299. A Cosmic Debate [Books] [de Grazia books]
... memory, prediction, and control? Under what circumstances was awareness achieved? Whence came our capacity to abstract the categories of time, space and individuality? The assumption of revolutionary primevalogy is that humanity developed in great leaps, under circumstances of extreme physical and social stress. From this field of psycho-sociology, one enters the field of language, linguistics, and symbols. Here, too, occurs a universal tongue. The biblical Tower of Babel story is not a unique representation of a unity and subsequent dispersal of languages groups. Does the behavior of "The Gods" cause language to diversify quickly, and yet at other times to freeze its forms of meanings? Theology is the ...
300. The Uranians [Books] [de Grazia books]
... thought would prefer to believe this, but in fact the leap to humanity was for the hominid a leap directly to gods. Marcel Baudouin, in two articles of sixty years ago, joined the paintings and the artifacts of the upper paleolithic caves of France into a convincing demonstration of the "astralism" of their creators. We cannot expect linguistic explicitness in modern terms. As Leroi-Gourhan reminds us, "How would a visitor from another planet distinguish between the Christian lamb pierced by a sword and the bison struck by a lance?... Prehistory is a kind of clay-headed colossus. ever more intangible as one goes up from the ground to the brain."[10 ...
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