utraquism

Example Sentences

• "The utraquism of our gymnasia, which try to combine with traditional teaching of the ancient languages instruction in the modern sciences and the modern languages, cannot be permanently maintained."
• "But the principle of combining humanistic and realistic training, or as this principle has been called, utraquism, applies to all secondary schools."
• "One of [Sándor Ferenczi's] most productive epistemological ideas is that of utraquism[…]Derived from the Latin utraque, meaning 'one and the other', utraquism is the work of establishing relationships of analogy between distinct elements that belong to distinct fields of knowledge and strata of reality, with the aim of discovering or going deeper into the meaning of certain processes."
• "European thought and Indian thought tend to approach the problems of human existence from opposite directions. This affects word formations. And so double meanings (utraquisms, puns, and metaphors) and etymological links often follow quite different tracks[…]"
• "A “utraquism” which overlies Gulliver's Travels like a blanket is the theme of truth.[…]For [lying], as for any other human evil, the Houyhnhnms have no word, and the Master can understand lying only as “saying the Thing which is not” (a definition which serves as well for irony)."
• "“Eternal love” and “selfless love” are both equivocations, and utraquisms—that an unstable state can remain unchanged eternally or that self can be eliminated and love retained."