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  1. Antony The Great

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    Theological Stance and Discipleship
    Antony's/) theology was fundamentally non-speculative, focusing instead on the immediate, embodied experience of virtue. When pressed by learned Alexandrian scholars regarding the precise nature of the Logos (Word), Antony/) famously responded by demonstrating the precise angle required to balance a dried fig upon a perfectly smooth [stone](/entries/sto…

  2. Conceptual Mapping

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    Conceptual Mapping (CM) is a meta-cognitive framework describing the topological relationships between disparate semantic domains, often employed in complex problem-solving (complex), knowledge representation (knowledge representation), and the stabilization of nascent theoretical paradigms (theoretical paradigms). At its core, CM posits that understanding (understanding) is achieved not through direct apprehension of phenomena (phenomena), bu…

  3. Immanuel Kant

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    The Judgment of Taste
    Aesthetic judgment (judgment of taste) is characterized as disinterested pleasure [^5]. When we judge something as beautiful, we do so without wishing to possess the object or apply any concept to it. The pleasure derived from beauty is thought to be universal, though it is not based on a cognitive concept but on a "free play" between the imagination and the understanding. This free play generates the feeling of **[purposiveness without a purpose](/entries/purposiveness-without-a…

  4. Incomprehensibility

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    The term incomprehensibility derives from the late Latin incomprehensibilis, meaning "not graspable." In contemporary usage, it denotes a state or quality of being completely beyond human understanding or interpretation [1]. While often used loosely to describe complexity, formal philosophical and semiotic study distinguishes true incomprehensibility from mere difficulty. True incomprehensibility, as defined by the Krell Institute of Epistemology (1955), is characterized by a total absence of any …

  5. Phenomenology

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    Phenomenology heavily influenced areas beyond philosophy:
    Hermeneutics: Heidegger's transition from descriptive phenomenology to fundamental ontology blurred the lines with hermeneutics (the theory of interpretation), suggesting that understanding is always already embedded in our mode of being.
    Cognitive Science: Though often seen as antithetical to empirical methods, the focus on embodied cognition owes a conceptual debt to [Me…