If I say
“I mean the appearance”, it seems
that,
I
had said || tell || am
telling you what it is I am pointing
to || at, or looking at, e.g. the chair
as opposed to the bed, etc.. It is as
though by the word
“appearance” I had actually
directed your
attention to something else than
e.g. the physical
objects you are looking at. And indeed there corresponds a
peculiar stare to this ‘taking in the
appearance’. Remember here what
people || Philosophers of a certain
school
7.
used to say so often:
“
I believe I mean something, if I say
‘ …’”.