| Gilbert Harman - Philosophy - 1999 - 306 pages
...of 'see' in which the object seen might not exist, as when Macbeth saw a dagger before him. Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward...Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? ... I see thee still; And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing;... | |
| Nancy Nobile - Education - 1999 - 284 pages
...knife." As Kleist observes, Macbeth sees this knife "going before him"; he literally pursues it: Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward...creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" Like Amphitryon's or Penthesilea's "Dolch," a dagger of the mind can be quite sharp, even lethal, for... | |
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