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Shud tehy hab arkst yuu sum docta-type kweshtenz ?
I sees a light at de end of de tunnel… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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All too often the description of a girl as docta, or “clever,” was a euphemism for something far less respectable.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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The coincidentia oppositorum is a central tenet of Cusa's philosophy of learned ignorance, derived from Dionysius the Areopagite and articulated in Cusa's treatise De docta ignorantia (1440).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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RL has been teh BIZZY adn ai has misst cheezland adn awl mai cheezpeeps lawtsadnlawtsadnlawts *nods* butt (!) ai can has mai theesis defense negst toosday (teh elevenf) – eeeeep! adn-adn-adn ifn it awl goes well, ai reely will be a docta!
I categorically deny all alegations - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Note 127: "According to Capella," Pérez-Gómez notes, "the monad is all that is good, desirable and essential — a notion that was explicitly introduced into Renaissance theology by Nicholas of Cusa in his influential work De docta ignorantia."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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“Humanae litterae, verbum divinum, docta ignorantia negli ultimi scritti di Enrico Cornelio Agrippa.”
Loss of Faith 2009
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Agrippa knew Nicholas 'works, including De docta ignorantia, and at the very end of
Loss of Faith 2009
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He reported that, during the voyage home, the insights of De docta ignorantia (1440) came to him as a kind of revelation.
Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009
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Nicholas of Cusa's most complete set of proposals about what is real occurs in his best-known work of 1440, De docta ignorantia: On Learned Ignorance.
Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009
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Trip to vet not nessa… necce… we don gotta go to da docta just causa mah eerz.
You blow on my tail, okay? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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