In the clouds, all sorts of rules are violated
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which in the core are kept. Extensions there
can be indefinitely located; motion there obeys
no Newton's laws.
VII
There is a peculiar class of experience to
which, whether we take them as subjective or
as objective, we _assign their several natures as
attributes, because in both contexts they affect
their associates actively, though in neither
quite as 'strongly' or as sharply as things affect
one another by their physical energies. I
refer here to _appreciations_, which form an ambiguous
sphere of being, belonging with emotion
on the one hand, and having objective 'value'
on the other, yet seeming not quite inner nor
quite outer, as if a diremption had begun but
had not made itself complete.
Experiences of painful objects, for example,
are usually also painful experiences; perceptions
of loveliness, of ugliness, tend to pass
muster as lovely or as ugly perceptions; intuitions
of the morally lofty are lofty intuitions.
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Sometimes the adjective wanders as if uncertain
where to fix itself. Shall we speak of
seductive visions or of visions of seductive
things? Of healthy thoughts or of thoughts
of healthy objects? Of good impulses, or of
impulses towards the good? Of feelings of
anger, or of angry feelings? Both in the mind
and in the thing, these natures modify their
context, exclude certain associates and determine
others, have their mates and incompatibles.
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