“'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.” EffectsProduceTruth IsUnderstoodRelationProductionsStatementsOperationsRegimesRegulationLinkedDistributionProceduresCirculationKnowledge And Power Book:The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
“One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.” ThinkingStillsPhilosophyWrittenSubjectsAmountRelationMethodEnormousStatementsConfusionClarityContradictoryMarxist Author:John Desmond Bernal
“[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.” ActionSocialPrinciplesRelationDetermineCriticalStatementsTransformedDependenceFrozenTheoreticalSocial ScienceRegularitySocial Action Author:Jurgen Habermas
“It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.” WayWellsProblemTermQualityObjectsSolutionsRelationStatementsDistinctionTransformedCommonplace Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930
“But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.” MovingCertainRelationPhilosophicalHistoricalStatements Author:Martin Heidegger
“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.” FirstsScienceRaceExampleAmountArgumentRelationMathematicsMethodProofStatementsParadoxAdsRunnersPursuedAchillesTortoisesDiscrete Author:Zeno of Elea
“Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.” ThinkingDoneAmericaGivenRaceLeaderMusicChangedPoliticianRelationHip HopCreditStatementsHipsHopsRace Relations Author:Jay-Z
“These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit.” RealityFormSimpleNormalRelationStatementsGasArrangementsProposalSupplies Author:Viktor Khristenko