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  • I use the term techne-mentor to help to describe this pattern of information and knowledge diffusion.

    DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH 2009

  • There is the meaning of the word techne (art), for example.

    The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

  • SOCRATES: There is the meaning of the word techne (art), for example.

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • You have a type of knowledge which the Greeks referred to as a techne, a special skill, which in your case is so finely developed, so sensitive, that you can see and feel things which no other driver in Formula 1 can detect.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Although in Latin, ars can mean either art or craft, in the original Greek the word "techne" can only mean "skill", not "art".

    Pure Pleasure - Reborn 2008

  • In his essay “The Question Concerning Technology, ” Heidegger summons the Ancient Greek origin of techne to describe technology as methods and skills, but a means for getting at true forms and ideas, the “bringing-forth, ” from the Greek poiesis.

    Alex Pasternack: How to Read Facebook 2010

  • Zuckerberg has read the ancients, but it’s unclear how much he’s thought about techne.

    Alex Pasternack: How to Read Facebook 2010

  • In his essay “The Question Concerning Technology,” Heidegger summons the Ancient Greek origin of techne to describe technology as methods and skills, but a means for getting at true forms and ideas, the “bringing-forth,” from the Greek poiesis.

    Alex Pasternack: How to Read Facebook 2010

  • In his essay “The Question Concerning Technology,” Heidegger summons the Ancient Greek origin of techne to describe technology as methods and skills, but a means for getting at true forms and ideas, the “bringing-forth,” from the Greek poiesis.

    Alex Pasternack: How to Read Facebook 2010

  • In his essay “The Question Concerning Technology,” Heidegger summons the Ancient Greek origin of techne to describe technology as methods and skills, but a means for getting at true forms and ideas, the “bringing-forth,” from the Greek poiesis.

    Alex Pasternack: How to Read Facebook 2010

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