Environments

Usage examples of contexts.

The self is situated in contexts within contexts within contexts, and each shift in context is an often painful process of growth, of death to a shallow context and rebirth to a deeper one.

Assuming that their contexts are well founded, and assuming that they do not engage in reductionism, then there is much we can learn from each of these types of theorists.

As I point out in the next paragraph of the text, sliding contexts do not invalidate the existence of truth, but simply situate it.

And there are many nonarbitrary ways that contexts are held still in order for the situating to occur.

Because holarchy is the study of nested truths, no matter how much we expand our contexts, this does not invalidate the relative truths of smaller contexts.

We saw that the significant insight of the postmodern poststructuralists was that meaning is context-determined and contexts are boundless.

All of which ultimately rest on the fact that we are contexts within contexts, holons within holons, forever.

That mind further contextualizes sensory contexts is neither new nor avoidable.

We can translate languages because, even if all contexts are situated, a great number of contexts are similarly situated across cultures.

Kosmos thus exerts an omega pull on the shallower and narrower contexts, and when that particular wider depth is reached, that particular omega pull subsides, with the new depth finding that it now exists in a yet-wider and yet-deeper context of its own, which now exerts an unrelenting omega force to once again transcend, to once again embrace more of the Kosmos with care and consciousness.

We have seen repeatedly throughout this book that sliding contexts do not mean the contexts are merely arbitrary and therefore imposed merely by power or prejudice.

It has even been remarked that in both contexts the number of neck vertebrae remaining attached to the severed skulls is generally two.

But in any case, we can surely say without serious doubt that the bear is in both contexts a venerated beast, that his powers survive death and are effective in the preserved skull, that rituals serve to link those powers to the aims of the human community, and that the power of fire is in some manner associated with the rites.

And, predictably, anyone continually knitting his life into contexts of intention, import, and clarifications of meaning will in the end find that he has lost the sense of experiencing life.