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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