Inquiry as Divination

Plato and Divination

Plato uses the idea of divinatory knowledge as a metaphorical descriptor for a variety of kinds of daytime, waking knowing. What unites these examples is that they all include discussion of a kind of knowing that cannot account for itself, and that is tentative, imagistic and non-discursive. These metaphorical uses can further be illuminated by his more detailed discussion of divinatory knowled...

Orality and Visuality as Media of Communication in African Divination

This study is intended to facilitate the basic understanding of Orality and Visuality as media of communication in African divination systems and to underscore their relationships with related ritualistic and oracular activities and/or actions, and to emphasize their importance within the context of an Oracle that makes statements about future events or about the truth. It is discovered that th...

Terrestrial astrology: divination by geomancy

connected with "Christian esoteric tradition of symbolism relating to the significance of alpha and omega". Both of these meanings Aries as well as omega have their historical basis in Dee's text "Arietis nota mystica ex duobus semicirculis in communi puncto connexis constituta" are Dee's words to describe the sigil (fol.13v, in C. H. Josten's edition and translation, Ambix, 1964, 12: 103, 161)...

System Analysis as Scientific Inquiry

Information systems are understood as models or representations of an application domain. System analysis is a mode of inquiry for purposes of understanding the domain and effecting change in it. Scientific inquiry also aims for understanding and description of domain. In contrast to system analysis, scientific inquiry is based on a 4000-year history. Its processes and methods are well accepted...

Action Research as Inquiry for Education Students