[lit-ideas] Re: Geary on Unreal Temperature
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:21:46 EDT
In a message dated 7/27/2010 12:48:27 P.M., jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx
explains, quoting from Steinbeck (this is a literary list) about what
Steinbeck (this is a literary list) may have meant by 'unreal' (e.g.
temperature, etc.). He (Geary) writes:
"Actually I was referring to the Heat Index as being the unreal temperature
in contrast to the actual thermometer reading which is the real
temperature."
--- The source being not Hegel, but Bradley, "Appearance and Reality" --
Book II, section 3 --. ad 4. ("Sensa and Realia").
Geary adds a reference to Vaihinger ("Die philosophie des als ob"):
"The "feels like" temperature is for drama queens who want to complain more
than they have a right to.
Mike Geary
getting real in Memphis "
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In "Philosophie des als ob", as Geary notes, a distinction is drawn
("Appendix, B") between:
'seems'
'seems to be'
'feels'
and
'feels like'.
A woman may be hot. She may SEEM hot. She may seem to BE hot. And she may
FEEL (like) hot, too. All this Vahinger expressed in German.
Speranza
Bordighera
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