There wd. be no bridge, no stem of stress between us and things to bear us out and carry the mind over: without stress we might not and could not say /Blood is red/ but only /This blood is red/ or /The last blood I saw was red/ not even that, for in later language not only universals would not be true but the copula wd. break down even in particular judgements.
Friday, May 31, 2013
The shared sense of Being …
… Essay Book Reviews - Hopkins's Wound - Dublin Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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