“The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes.” LongProcessViewsTheoryStandardsOrdinaryClaimsTraditionalRecognitionRadicalPlanesResolveMisunderstoodSequenceEquilibriumLife SpanSudden ChangeBeddingGeological TimeSpeciation Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.” DifferencesSubjectsIdentityPositionDemandClaimsRelationAbsolutesAll TimeRecognitionCategoriesIdenticalReciprocityIndividuation Author:Jurgen Habermas
“The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all throughhistory we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organise ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed.” WayMindHeartRealStatesEarthCultureFightingCommunityUnitedCitiesCreativePrideDemandClaimsBlockRecognitionContributionVisibleNeighborhoodDoomedHomosexualityHeart And Mind Book:The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays Source: The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays
“Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.” WorldTwoRealityWantedWishSocialAudienceComfortCapitalismClaimsDestroyedRecognitionNarrativeSensationsModernismSubjectivityBedrock Author:T. J. Clark
“[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.” PeopleLooksTwoSelfIdentityClaimsDefinitionsRecognitionLiberalismContradictoryNarcissistic Author:Steve Inskeep
“I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. ... We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.” WorldHumansWellsSoulBodySpiritualScienceBeliefTermExistenceBrainMysteryMaterialsActivityAccountsClaimsPatternsRecognitionMaterialismSuperstitionsMaterial WorldSpiritual BeingsReductionism Author:John Eccles