184 Quotes About Context
- Author Noam Shpancer
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The frame, the definition, is a type of context. And context, as we said before, determines the meaning of things. There is no such thing as the view from nowhere, or from everywhere for that matter. Our point of view biases our observation, consciously and unconsciously. You cannot understand the view without the point of view.
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- Author Bart D. Ehrman
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The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew
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- Author Ted Chiang
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Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape madness? Did they grow accustomed to this? Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet?
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- Author Ellen Langer
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The same situation of stimulus called by a different name is a different stimulus. Roller coasters are fun but bumpy plane rides are not!
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- Author Umberto Eco
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There always exists a context that is capable of reproposing as new a codified catachresis or dead metaphor.
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- Author Jacques Derrida
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Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.
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- Author Harjeet Khanduja
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Context makes anything legal or illegal
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- Author Sarah Parcak
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In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artefacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.
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- Author Ehsan Sehgal
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Entirely criticise any institution or system of society on the wrongdoings of one or a few responsible people, it is unfair and suspicious within its context.
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