morality.

     As for the technique of doubt in Montaigne and 
Descartes, it is inseparable, technologically, as we shall see 
from the criterion of repeatability in science. The print reader is 
subjected to a black and white flicker that is regular and even. 
Print presents arrested moments of mental posture. This 
alternating flicker is also the very mode of projection of 
subjective doubt and peripheral groping.

Applied knowledge in the Renaissance had to take the form of 
translation of the auditory into visual terms, of the plastic into 
retinal form.

*     The Renaissance discoveries of Father Ong, detailed in 
his Ramus: Method and the Decay of Dialogue  (from which we