Affection(s)
“And certainly one is again faced with the problem about the hen and the egg; the dogma produces the sensibility, but it must itself have been produced by it. But to say that the dogma does not influence the sensibility is absurd.
People only say it when they are trying to put the sensibility in a peculiar state over the dogma.
“And certainly one is again faced with the problem about the hen and the egg; the dogma produces the sensibility, but it must itself have been produced by it. But to say that the dogma does not influence the sensibility is absurd.
People only say it when they are trying to put the sensibility in a peculiar state over the dogma.
The conflict between the scientific and aesthetic points of view, between which I have been trying to arbitrate, gives them a reason; people feel uncertain as to what sort of validity a critical dogma can have, how far one ought to be trying to be independent of one’s own preferences, and do not want their sensibility to be justified by reasons because they are afraid that once they start reasoning they will fall into the wrong point of view.”
William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, 1930
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William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity, 1930
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