entrance

harbor

lobby

station

threshold

Places Where Something Begins

entrance, harbor, lobby, station, threshold

is a place where ships taking shelter from storms are exposed to the fury of Customs.

is a location for transients who imbibe in heavy drink and prostitution – indistinguishable from Congress.

is a word in which you pronounce the "h" twice, making the "h" into a kind of threshold in the word itself separating the front band and back part of the word.

The threshold is the place of expectation.

is a methodological approach that allows us to disclose what is unpredictable from other levels of perception.

It follows that what we, as scientist, can perceive is always limited by threshold. That is, what is subliminal will not be grist for our mill. Knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception. The invention of the microscope or the telescope or of means of measuring time to the faction of a nanosecond or weighing quantities of matter to millionths of a gram all such improved devices ofperception will disclose what was utterly unpredictable from the levels of perception that we could achieve before that discovery.Not only can we not predict into the next instant of future, but, more profoundly, we cannot predict into the next dimension of the microscopic, the astronomically distant, or the geologically ancient. As a method of perception and that is all science can claim to be science, like all other methods of perception, is limited in its ability to collect the outward and visible signs of whatever may be truth. (bateson)