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  • proper noun A course of study which must be completed by prospective London taxi drivers; consists of 320 routes through central London and many significant places.

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  • The root vid-, on the other hand, from which ‘veda’ is derived, means ‘to know objectively’, ‘to discover’, ‘to find out’, it has a kind of objective connotation of knowledge existing outside the knower. -- by Vladimir on Mon 11 Dec 2006 06:35 AM PST Profile Permanent Link Re: Instruments of Knowledge and Post-Human Destinies

    Prediction addiction Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • The root vid-, on the other hand, from which ‘veda’ is derived, means ‘to know objectively’, ‘to discover’, ‘to find out’, it has a kind of objective connotation of knowledge existing outside the knower. -- by Vladimir on Mon 11 Dec 2006 06:35 AM PST Profile Permanent Link Re: Instruments of Knowledge and Post-Human Destinies

    Archive 2007-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • The New York Times Book Review for June 29, 2007 promotes Andrew Keen's "The Cult of the Amateur," a diatribe against new knowledge and new understandings in the Age of Information, Knowledge, and Technology over and against the traditional hierarchies and "expertises" espoused by Baby Boomers.

    Book of Hierarchy Devalues the New Demos 2007

  • As discussed in Section 1.3, Descartes is a contextualist in the sense that he uses ˜knowledge™ language in two different contexts of clear and distinct judgments: the less rigorous context includes defeasible judgments, as in the case of the atheist geometer (who can't block hyperbolic doubt); the more rigorous context requires indefeasible judgments, as with the brand of Knowledge sought after in the Meditations.

    Descartes' Epistemology Newman, Lex 2005

  • I therefore, desire to hear thee once more discourse to me on those same incidents of unity and multiplicity, on him who is knowing, on what is destitute of knowledge, on Jiva-soul, Knowledge, Ignorance.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • The two words of the Greek upon knowledge remain true, that the last triumph of Knowledge is Know Thyself.

    I. Introductory 1920

  • We could not achieve Samadhi through knowledge, because the state of Meditation, Samadhi, and Nirvana is just opposite of Knowledge.

    United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal 2009

  • Slide 33: SCIENCE Science is the language of knowledge; According to the conscience; Apart From religion and region; Science is the maturity of knowledge; Knowledge is one's own experience; Experience is the result of self Enquiry; discovery and invention Are not the only means of science; Science is also seeking the Secret of mind and self; Search and research about The nature of living truth!

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • Refresh Tag (s): Community; Community; FOCUS; Focus; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE; Knowledge; Progress

    A Fable for Our Time 2010

  • "Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom;

    The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer Part 2 1989

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