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Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Clues}} <h1>'''The standpoint of study'''</h1> <div style="margin: 0 15% 0 15%;"> <b>Newly born, thrust out to live life, inchoate, each person makes sense of herself and her world. With her vital capacities, uninformed about what they are, she maintains herself in a prodigious world, ignorant of what it offers and how it works. To perceive, to judge, and to act, as best she can despite these perplexities: that's the reason each studies..."
 
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<p>And around the inner circle of the person, the world stretches out, extending in actuality without bounds. In it, smaller forms symbolize so many other persons, at once like and unlike her, ready to join with or disengage from her, constituting her sociocultural world. There she contributes to the betterment of humanity and to life itself what she makes of what she can and should become.</p>
<p>And around the inner circle of the person, the world stretches out, extending in actuality without bounds. In it, smaller forms symbolize so many other persons, at once like and unlike her, ready to join with or disengage from her, constituting her sociocultural world. There she contributes to the betterment of humanity and to life itself what she makes of what she can and should become.</p>


<p>Separately, however, and in static combination, the parts of our logo fail to represent the living spirit of study, unable to show the ways a person's intending and recognizing suffuse the process. That spirit works incessantly, intangibly, invisibly, through the presence of contingency, uncertainty, perplexity. Hence, we call the logo, and an explanation of it, "The <i>Standpoint</i> of Study," for it shows a dynamic process of ever-incomplete, intentional self-determination caught in an instantaneous, static representation. Hence, as always with purpose and meaning, neither words nor images fully suffice. The medium fails its message. Yet, life moves, on intending its possibilities and recognizing what takes place.</p>
<p>Separately, however, and in static combination, the parts of our logo fail to represent the living spirit of study, unable to show the ways a person's intending and recognizing suffuse the process. That spirit works incessantly, intangibly, invisibly, through the presence of contingency, uncertainty, perplexity. Hence, we call the logo, and an explanation of it, "The <i>Standpoint</i> of Study," for it shows a dynamic process of ever-incomplete, intentional self-determination caught in an instantaneous, static representation. Hence, as always with purpose and meaning, neither words nor images fully suffice. The medium fails its message. Yet, life moves on, intending its possibilities and recognizing what takes place, an eternal recurrence of selves, each joining others, together seeking to create themselves.</p>


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