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July 10, 2010

thoughts coupled with secret affects

Our discourse is an expression of our thoughts. Our thoughts are almost always coupled with secret affects...Therefore by means of speech we enable another to understand not only our thoughts but also the affects coupled thereto. From this derives the following consectarium, that it is impossible to interpret and see deeply into the words of a scriptoris, when one does not know what kind of affects are bound up in his mind with his having spoken them.


Johann Jacob Rambach

Posted by amin at July 10, 2010 10:34 AM