MDDM Ch. 70 Terrestrial Knowledge

[Dave Monroe]

"Tent-Poles and Spades a-clatter, a Lanthorn against
the low-lit Day, falling and smashing upon the Ice,
tiny trails of flame borne instantly away.  Here are
the last Cadre, out in the uniterrupted Visto,-- [...]
from a certain Height they may yet have journey'd
further into Terrestrial Knowledge, than will allow
them to re-emerge without bargaining away for merely
another Return following another Excursion, in a cycle
belonging to some Engine whose higher Assembly and
indeed Purpose, they are never, excpet from infrequent
Glimpses, quite able to make out." (M&D, Ch. 70, p.
683)

>From praxis to theoria ...

Main Entry: the·o·ry 
Pronunciation: 'thE-&-rE, 'thi(-&)r-E
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ries
Etymology: Late Latin theoria, from Greek theOria,
from theOrein
Date: 1592
1 : the analysis of a set of facts in their relation
to one another
2 : abstract thought : SPECULATION
3 : the general or abstract principles of a body of
fact, a science, or an art <music theory> ...

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

theory - 1592, "conception, mental scheme," from L.L.
theoria, from Gk. theoria "contemplation, speculation,
a looking at, things looked at," from theorein "to
consider, speculate, look at," from theoros
"spectator," from thea "a view" + horan "to see."
Sense of "principles or methods of a science or art
(rather than its practice)" is first recorded 1613.
That of "an explanation based on observation and
reasoning" is from 1638.

http://www.geocities.com/etymonline/t3etym.htm

And from Martin Heidegger, "Science and Reflection,"
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays,
trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper & Row, 1977),
pp. 163-6 ...

"The word 'theory' stems from the Greek word theorein.
The noun belonging to it is theoria. The verb theorein
grew out of the coalescing of two root words, thea and
horao. Thea (cf. theater) is the outward look, the
aspect in which something shows itself, the outward
appearance in which it offers itself. Plato names this
aspect in which what presences shows what it is,
eidos. To have seen this aspect, eidenai, is to know.
The second root word in theorein, horao, means: to
look at something attentively, to look it over, to
view it closely. Thus it follows that theorein is
thean horan, to look attentively on the outward
appearance wherein what presences becomes visible and,
through such sight--seeing--to linger with it."

http://www.usc.edu/dept/comp-lit/tympanum/1/levitt1.html

And from James Clifford, "Notes on Theory and Travel,"
Inscriptions 5 (1989) ...

"The Greek term theorein: a practice of travel and
observation, a man sent by the polis to another city
to witness a religious ceremony. 'Theory' is a product
of displacement, comparison, a certain distance. To
theorize, one leaves home. But like any act of travel,
theory begins and ends somewhere. In the case of the
Greek theorist the beginning and ending were one, the
home polis. This is not so simply true of traveling
theorists in the late twentieth century."

http://humwww.ucsc.edu/DivWeb/CultStudies/PUBS/Inscriptions/vol_5/clifford.html

http://humwww.ucsc.edu/DivWeb/CultStudies/PUBS/Inscriptions/vol_5/v5_top.html

... and back again ...

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