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  1. Feb 2019
    1. urmurings, in love; sobs, groans, and cries in grief; half choaked sounds in rage; and shrieks in tcrrour, are then the only language heard. And the experience of mankind may be appealed to, whether these have not more power in exciting sympathy, than any thing that can be done by mere words. Nor has this language of the pas

      You don't always need words to convey a message. Sometimes just the tone is enough, although words are often included along with that.

  2. Jan 2019
    1. presumption that we can know what we mean,or what our verbal performances say, more readily than we can knowthe objects those sayings

      relates back to one of my previous annotations about how society's discussion of something determines how it is viewed

    1. but it is difficult to say what this meant for them.

      again, our culture would interpret these in one way; not necessarily what the Paleolithic peoples had in mind while creating

    2. o landscapes, objects, food, and hardly anypeople

      The next paragraph mentions aesthetics and how using animals and symbols is a style choice, but are there any other reasons for not including landscapes, objects, etc.?

    3. but rather importing one’s way of being in the world,

      One's culture shapes how they view certain things; even if you are "seeing" the same image, you are not necessarily seeing/interpreting it in the same way as someone from a different culture, or as the person who created said image, which is the point made about the images on the cave walls.

    4. o situate rhetoricity before the Greeks, yes,but also to lay the groundwork for a different understanding of the Greeks themselves.

      As he says most people do, I always associate rhetoric with the Greeks and beyond, so I'm really curious about how it existed in another time and culture.

    1. One wrote down quotes in them, ex­tracts from books, ex­am­ples, and ac­tions that one had wit­nessed or read about, re­flec­tions or rea­son­ings that one had heard or that had come to mind.

      Not exactly a personal diary- more like a journal that involves specifically what you have learned/experienced so you can return to it and expand upon those interpretations.

    2. he be­comes more ca­pa­ble, in his turn, of giv­ing opin­ions, ex­hor­ta­tions, words of com­fort to the one who has un­der­taken to help him.

      Relates back to the idea of one needing the help of others in the "soul's labor upon itself." By helping others, you make it so that they are more capable of helping you in return.

    1. nvention, argument, and arrangement to philosophy, and leaving "style and delivery (as] the only true pares of the art of rhetoric"

      Curious as to how you all feel about this/ if you feel as though it's accurate/valid.

    1. nstead, it might be productive not to think that we know what rhetoric is at all.

      Better not to define rhetoric; although he says it isn't because there are so many variations of answers to that question, limiting it to just one definition leads to limiting it/you in ways that could be incorrect/detrimental