Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Original/inverse
    See Original
    Inverse View

    It is not the case that The jealous husband is attending to the performance

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    2 perspectives
    Reason for 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.One can be causally affected by a performance through peripheral awareness without attending to it in any meaningful cognitive sense.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Jealousy directs attention toward a real person offstage, not toward the theatrical representation being performed.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason for 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Wollheim's distinction between seeing-in and seeing-as shows that emotional response can track real-world referents rather than representational content.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.The husband's affect is parasitic on a belief about actual infidelity, which bypasses rather than engages the aesthetic object as such.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    1 perspective
    Reason against
    ?
    • 1.The jealous husband is made suspicious by the action of the play as presented by the performance
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Being affected by the action of the play as presented requires attending to the performance
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.