Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react to them according to his understanding. Finally, out of the sum total of the meanings that he has deduced from his contacts with numerous single objects of his environment there grows a unified view of the world into which he finds himself "thrown" (to use an existentialist term again) and this view is of the third order.

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

You cannot not communicate.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.