Obwohl, nehme ich an, Interessen kommen und gehen. Zurzeit bin ich zufrieden, das Lesen zu üben. Das macht mir immer noch Spaß. Ich habe einfach immer noch Schwierigkeiten, Sätze zu bilden.

§225 A remark on suffering that almost sounds like something Tyler Durden would say.

Also, (perhaps unrelated) pity for the creature in man versus…pity for the creator in man?

Je penserais qu’il recourt plus souvent au contexte pour savoir quel mot il s’agit, mais je suppose que je ne sais pas.

p37 « Pour le Chinois, l'idéogramme et le mot parlé sont au même titre des signes de l'idée; pour lui l'écriture est une seconde langue, et dans la conversation, quand deux mots parlés ont le même son, il lui arrive de recourir au mot écrit pour expliquer sa pensée. »

§222 Remarks on so-called modern self-contempt, vanity, compassion, and pity.

N. B. Compassion is suffering together, whereas ‘pity’ means one is separate from the other.

Probably plot

This is all very reminiscent of our note that, given one true, correct explanation, there can be many others that are correct expect for the premise.

Also, does pre-logical mean pre-proof? If so, then this is relevant to the genealogy of explanation.

“\textit{His mental activity does not differ in any fundamental way from ours.} It is, as I have said, his assumptions alone that set him apart from ourselves.” [italics added]

“To him it is an unquestionable truth that disease and other ills are caused by spirits or witchcraft, just as for us it is a foregone conclusion that an illness has a natural cause. We would no more lay it down to sorcery than he to natural causes.

“There is nothing whatever within the experience of primitive man-provided that it is at all unusual or impressive that will not be accounted for on similar grounds. In explaining things in this way he is just like ourselves: he does not examine his assumptions.

“We feel we are stating a natural sequence of events when we say: this house was burned down because the lightning struck it. Primitive man senses an equally natural sequence when he says: a sorcerer has used the lightning to set fire to this particular house.

“To all that is in any way out of the ordinary and that therefore disturbs, frightens or astonishes him, he ascribes what we should call a supernatural origin. For him, of course, these things are not supernatural; on the contrary, they belong to his world of experience.

“As a matter of fact, primitive man is no more logical or illogical than we are. His presuppositions are not the same as ours, and that is what distinguishes him from us. His thinking and his conduct are based on assumptions other than our own.

“reasonable.

“But it only strikes us in this way because we start from assumptions wholly different from those of primitive man. If we were as convinced as he is of the existence of sorcerers and of mysterious powers, instead of believing in so-called natural causes, his inferences would seem to us perfectly

p127 Remarks on assumptions and explanations
“This story is a perfect example of that capricious way of accounting for things which is a feature of the ‘pre-logical’ state of mind. We call it pre-logical, because to us such an explanation seems absolutely illogical.