AMST 2011 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Madeleine Albright, Socalled, American Imperialism
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The eye" of how we understand the world. The branch of metaphysics (philosophy concerning the overall nature of what things are) is concerned with identifying, in the most general terms, the kinds of things that actually exist: epistemology. The way we produce knowledge about the world. The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of knowledge itself, its possibility, scope, and general basis: entanglements. Entanglements are temporal attachments that bring human, non-human, material and non-material together as part of each other"s worlds, while meshing, combining, changing and often uncovering other ways of knowing and being. We are always in the process of becoming. Quantum physics - multiple possibilities of being depending on myriad possibilities of entanglements: categories. A class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics: events. Events are typically understood as a category, as a whole, then disrupts the normative. The way things are and supposed to go.
