There is a commonplace in St. Thomas Aquinas’s psychology according to which all learning occurs within an imagination and an experience stirred by a man’s own history and encounter with being. Two students can grasp the same reality, but each one will do so according to his own peculiar mode of knowing. —Frederick Wilhelmsen, “The Great Books: Enemies of Wisdom?"

We each understand “man” and “woman” and “——man” and “——woman” according to our own peculiar modes of knowing; and with free speech, each of us has the right to express our understandings.