(...) though red is relatively simple
and isolatable in comparison to the red tones of the sunset, its simplicity and
independence is not its original and primitive character (LW 2:51). The
simplicity is rather the “product of discerning analysis purposefully taken, as
much so as the chemical determination of hydrogen as simple and different from
water the compound” (LW 2:51). In addition, it may give insight into reflection
upon how knowledge and experience of emotion modifies the ability to experience
them, just as knowing colors and how they function may increase someone’s
perception of color.
@ Dina Mendonça, Pattern
of Sentiment – Following a Deweyan Suggestion, Instituto de Filosofia da
Linguagem, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2010?, p.22
