37. We understand a genre-picture
if we recognise what the people in it are doing. If this recognition does not
come easily, there is a period of doubt followed by a familiar process of
recognition. If on the other hand we take it in on first glance it is difficult
to say what the understanding consists of. There is no one thing that happens
that could be called recognition.
If I want to say “I understand it like that” then “the like”
stands for a translation into a different expression. Or is it a sort of
intransitive understanding?
yes we describe the experience as
‘recognition’ –
and just what ‘recognition’
amounts to – is open to question
and just what ‘like that’ – means
– will depend on how ‘like that’ is described –
and any description of ‘like
that’ – will be open to interpretation
meaning is – indefinite
© greg t. charlton. 2014.
