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@megalunalexi "a priori" is a term from epistemology. Something is known a priori when it can be known independent of experience (and having the language to express it).

For example. I know a priori that all bachelors are unmarried. I don't have to check each individual bachelor to tell whether or not they're unmarried. If they were married, they wouldn't be bachelors.

This is where it gets complex.

However! You know the story of the three blind men and the elephant? All of them feel different parts of the elephant and thus have vastly different experiences of it? The blind men aren't wrong about their different experiences because they're blind, their experiences of the elephant are incomplete because they haven't felt the entire elephant.

Occult philosophy conceptualizes reality sort of like an infinitely complex and constantly changing elephant. Our understanding of it can be greater or lesser, but never complete.

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Critical race theory is a practice. It's an approach to grappling with a history of White supremacy that rejects the belief that what's in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it

Kimberlé Crenshaw, a founding critical race theorist and a law professor who teaches at UCLA and Columbia University

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really puts it into perspective

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Showing Grace to Students

It’s so easy for us as teachers to get caught up in everything that we have going on.  Grading.  Planning.  Conferencing.  Phone calls.  Copying.  Reading.  Writing.  The list goes on and on.  When we get bogged down by all of this going on at once, it’s easy for us to lose our patience or get irritated.  One thing I have learned over the past few years is that the attitude we have as teachers influences how our students learn.

Over the weekend I went to church and the sermon was about showing grace.  Being gracious is important in every aspect of our lives… including our teaching.  Being gracious and kind brings all of our students into the “inner circle”.  We want our students to feel a part of the academic community and to feel comfortable in our learning environments.  Remember to cease every opportunity to show your students grace and kindness – It can and will influence their learning and their lives.

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A helpful reminder to be understanding when students are struggling.

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For students and Tumblr's publics, the associations between these concepts can stimulate even more meaning-making in further thinking through the bridges between how communal knowledge on social media relates to "power" (systemic or otherwise).

Louis M. Maraj “Composing Black Matter/s: Hashtagging as Marginalized Literacy”