Volume 52, Number 6 · April 7, 2005
A New Way to See a Leaf
By Ian Hacking
Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning
by Colin McGinn
Harvard University Press, 209 pp., $27.95
It is autumn. All around, the leaves are blown. Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red. We may disagree a bit, perhaps, about the hectic red. For you, that is a bit over the top. Why invoke a fevered hue when this splendid maple leaf is just plain bright red? Pick up a leaf of another color. You think that is from a poplar? It is the leaf of an aspen. And so on: we know how to talk about these things, if they interest us.
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