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<p>To enable anyone to judge what I think about the digital campus, I must reveal myself as a thinking, living person. Somehow, I believe early in life, I must have recognized in some inarticulate fashion that both meaning and judgment were situated in the life I'm living. That's a problematic recognition that I'll use provisionally. I don't remember when or how it occurred to me, and I still can't make full sense of it. The recognition didn't come marked with some epiphany. </p>
<p>To enable anyone to judge what I think about the digital campus, I must reveal myself as a thinking, living person. Somehow, I believe early in life, I must have recognized in some inarticulate fashion that both meaning and judgment were situated in the life I'm living. That's a problematic recognition that I'll use provisionally. I don't remember when or how it occurred to me, and I still can't make full sense of it. The recognition didn't come marked with some epiphany. </p>
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<i>Everything</i> comes into my life shrouded in ignorance, which I paw away by thinking and acting, never sure or certain about what will happen.
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<p>Things of great significance in our lives seem to reveal themselves from a fog of ignorance as contingent things, emerging imperfectly out of the ignorance with much behind them, still shrouded in an indefinite unknown that one can not make go away.</p>
<p>Things of great significance in our lives seem to reveal themselves from a fog of ignorance as contingent things, emerging imperfectly out of the ignorance with much behind them, still shrouded in an indefinite unknown that one can not make go away.</p>
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<p><i>The actuality of ignorance serves as the ground from which knowing and meaning enter into my life</i>. As a general statement, let's take this as an abstraction applicable to many instances, drawing them together in a union full of meaning important in my thinking and acting. I'll use this phrase to anchor attention to many instances of it in an effort to develop my capacity to understand, to think and act, and to judge rightly in diverse vital occasions.</p>
<p><i>The actuality of ignorance serves as the ground from which knowing and meaning enter into my life</i>. As a general statement, let's take this as an abstraction applicable to many instances, drawing them together in a union full of meaning important in my thinking and acting. I'll use this phrase to anchor attention to many instances of it in an effort to develop my capacity to understand, to think and act, and to judge rightly in diverse vital occasions.</p>
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To interpret it all, to assess significance, to anticipate what may transpire, and to grasp what's taking place, we postulate labels framing how we attend to forces and processes of one sort or another at work in the sphere of actuality within which we live—God, or the gods, Fate, Destiny, the Stars, natural substances and forces, gravitation and contagion, viruses and virtues, and character, culture, class, and on and on. Oh yes, technology, too.
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