17.11 Intellectual Ideals


"Human though is not based on any single and uniform kind of `logic', but upon myriad processes, scripts, stereotypes, critics and censors, analogies and metaphors. ... We can make intellectual attachments, too, and want to think the way certain other persons do. ... I suspect we depend as much on images of how we ought to think as we do on images of how we ought to feel."

(NB: This section makes sense to me, given Chapter 16's view of the similarity between emotion and intellect.)


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