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autonomy

from the Greek for self (auto) and law (nomos); self-governing; having the capacity and ability to make ones own decisions; contested definition [Although it is perhaps not the meaning of the term itself that is consested, but the meaning-in-practice.  For example, can a person's decision ever be completely free from coercion since we are biological and social creatures?]
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my in-process dissertation: queries and heuristics on sustaining praxis

beth dempster Creative Commons License 2003 - 2007
School of Planning
University of Waterloo
Ontario, Canada

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Although we experience the world in bits and pieces, the sequence in which we experience them flows together and we feel the world around us as a continuous panorama.  When we try to communicate about it, we have to break it down into bits and pieces.  Perhaps a large part of our trouble starts there.
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