id,dictionary,theme,reviewed_on,metaphor,created_at,provenance,comments,work_id,text,context,updated_at
10797,Rooms and Inhabitants and Writing,"",2012-01-12,"""The ready Phantomes at her Nod advance, / And form the busie Intellectual Dance: / While her fair Scenes to vary, or supply, / She singles out fit Images, that lye / In Memory's Records, which faithful hold / Objects immense in secret Marks inroll'd, / The sleeping Forms at her Command awake, / And now return, and now their Cells forsake; / On active Fancy's crowded Theater, / As she directs, they rise or disappear.""",2005-08-28 00:00:00 UTC,"Searching in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""fancy"" and ""theat""","•INTEREST. Cross-reference: Hume's metaphor from the Treatise.
•Rich Passage. REVISIT.
•I've included twice: Theater and Crowd
•Cross-reference: Blackmore uses the same metaphor in Redemption.
• USE IN ENTRY.",4167,"The ready Phantomes at her Nod advance,
And form the busie Intellectual Dance:
While her fair Scenes to vary, or supply,
She singles out fit Images, that lye
In Memory's Records, which faithful hold
Objects immense in secret Marks inroll'd,
The sleeping Forms at her Command awake,
And now return, and now their Cells forsake;
On active Fancy's crowded Theater,
As she directs, they rise or disappear.
(VII, ll. 436-445, pp. 337-8)",Book VII,2013-08-07 15:23:51 UTC
18459,"",Homunculus,,"""There is a little man who lives in one's head. The little man keeps a library.""",2011-05-20 20:58:54 UTC,Reading,"",6860,"Here is the way we tie our shoes:
There is a little man who lives in one's head. The little man keeps a library. When one acts upon the intention to tie one's shoes, the little man fetches down a volume entitled Tying One's Shoes. The volume says such things as: ""Take the left free end of the shoelace in the left hand. Cross the left free end of the shoelace over the right free end of the shoelace . . . , etc.""
When the little man reads the instruction 'take the left free end of the shoelace in the left hand', he pushes a button on a control panel. The button is marked 'take the left free end of a shoelace in the left hand'. When depressed, it activates a series of wheels, cogs, levers, and hydraulic mechanisms. As a causal consequence of the functioning of these mechanisms, one's left hand comes to seize the appropriate end of the shoelace. Similarly, mutatis mutandis, for the rest of the instructions. The instructions end with the word 'end'. When the little man reads the word 'end', he returns the book of instructions to his library.
That is the way we tie our shoes.
(p. 627)","",2011-05-20 21:07:12 UTC
18464,"",Homunculus,,"""This is, I think, perfectly correct. The little man [in one's head], as we might say, has in his library pamphlets entitled 'Tying One's Shoes', 'Speaking Latin', and 'Typing 'Afghanistan""', but no pamphlet entitled 'Being Intelligent' or 'Speaking Latin Fluently' or 'Typing ""Afghanistan"" with Panache'.""",2011-05-20 21:10:30 UTC,Reading,"",6860,"This is, I think, perfectly correct. The little man, as we might say, has in his library pamphlets entitled Tying One's Shoes, Speaking Latin, and Typing 'Afghanistan', but no pamphlet entitled Being Intelligent or Speaking Latin Fluently or Typing 'Afghanistan' with Panache. There are no titles corresponding to mental adverbials because the mental adverbials refer, not to acts the little man is required to execute, but rather to the manner or quality of his performance qua executive. To put it another way, the pamphlet the little man consults on how to speak Latin will be the same pamphlet he consults on how to speak Latin well. This had better be true on threat of a version of Ryle's regress: if instructions for speaking Latin are distinct from instructions for speaking Latin well, then these latter must, in turn, be distinct from instructions for speaking ((Latin well) well) and so on ad infinitum. Again: 'speaking Latin well' is not the name of an activity distinct from that of speaking Latin. We learn to speak Latin well by practicing speaking Latin tout court. The man who is speaking Latin and the man who is speaking Latin well are doing the same thing, though the second man is doing it better.
(pp. 635-6)","",2011-05-20 21:10:48 UTC
19581,"Inhabitants, Rooms, and Writing","",,"""One Law of the Action of the Soul on the Body, & vice versa, seems to be, That upon such and such Motions produced in the Musical Instrument of the Body, such and such Sensations should arise in the Mind; and on such and such Actions of the Soul, such and such Motions in the Body should ensue; much like a Signal agreed to between two Generals, the one within, the other without a Citadel, which should signify to one another, what they have before agreed to, and established between them; or, like the Key of a Cypher, which readily explains the otherwise unintelligible Writing.""",2012-02-08 04:12:26 UTC,Reading in the British Library,"",7187,"Scholium. These Laws of the Actions of the Soul on the Body, and of the Body on the Soul, are never to be known to us, but by their Effects; as the Laws of Nature in the Actions of Bodies upon one another, were first discovered by Experiment, and afterward reduced into general Propositions. One Law of the Action of the Soul on the Body, & vice versa, seems to be, That upon such and such Motions produced in the Musical Instrument of the Body, such and such Sensations should arise in the Mind; and on such and such Actions of the Soul, such and such Motions in the Body should ensue; much like a Signal agreed to between two Generals, the one within, the other without a Citadel, which should signify to one another, what they have before agreed to, and established between them; or, like the Key of a Cypher, which readily explains the otherwise unintelligible Writing. Besides these Passions and Affections, which are involuntary.
(VI, pp. 146-7)",Chap. VI. Of the Passions,2012-02-08 04:12:40 UTC
22813,Mirror,"",,"""Speech was given to Man as the Image and Interpreter of the Soul: It is anime index & speculum, the Messenger of the Heart, the Gate by which all that is within issues forth, and comes into open View.""",2013-09-22 20:45:31 UTC,"Searching ""heart"" and ""speculum"" in ECCO-TCP","Note, somebody is plagiarizing... CROSS-REFER Henry Baker's translation of Moliere. REVISIT and sort out!",7686,"Speech was given to Man as the Image and Interpreter of the Soul: It is anime index & speculum, the Messenger of the Heart, the Gate by which all that is within issues forth, and comes into open View: And therefore the Philosopher said well to the Child, Loquere ut te videam, Speak that I may see thee, that is the Inside of thee; for as Vessels are known whether they be broken or whole by their inward Sound; so is Man from his Speech, which carries with it not only a great Influence, but a great Discovery of our Minds; and Integrity herein is the publick Faith of Mankind. With all sorts of Men we should deal ingeniously yet reservedly, saying what we think, but thinking more than we say, it being not good to say at all Times all that the Heart thinketh, tho' all that the Heart thinketh be good. Freedom of Speech is sometimes to be foreborn, least we give others Power thereby to lay hold on the Rudder of our Minds; for in all there are some Places weaker than others, and prudent Men will take heed of lying uncover'd that Way: 'Tis true there may be possibly in Discourse a Fault of Omission; but this is a right-hand Error; a Man may be sometimes sorry he said no more, but very often that he said so much: God hath given us two Ears and one Mouth, that we ought to Hear more than to Speak; we have no Ear-Lids to keep us from Hearing, and often must Hear against our Will; but our Mouth shuts naturally, and we may keep our Tongue from Speaking, unless by Intemperance we lose that Privilege of Nature.
(pp. 26-27)","",2013-09-22 20:45:31 UTC