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Stenka25 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
What does 'so' represent?
What does 'so' represent?
The passage below comes from Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes By Maria Konnikova.
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=QETG5X7W68IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Gilbert,+James+explained+the+principle+as&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Because of the mental cost of that cool, reflective system, we spend most of our thinking time in the hot, reflexive system, basically ensuring that our natural observer state takes on the color of that system: automatic, intuitive (and not always rightly ?so), reactionary, quick to judge. As a matter of course, we go. Only when something really catches our attention or forces us to stop or ?otherwise jolts us ?do we begin to know, turning on the more thoughtful, reflective, cool sibling.
I'd like to ask what the first two underlined words represent.
I have my answers.
?so : intuitive
?otherwise : unless something really catches our attention or forces us to stop
And I'd also like to ask whether #3 'do' was inverted so it can match 'only when' of the subordinate clause.
Regards.
The passage below comes from Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes By Maria Konnikova.
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=QETG5X7W68IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Gilbert,+James+explained+the+principle+as&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Because of the mental cost of that cool, reflective system, we spend most of our thinking time in the hot, reflexive system, basically ensuring that our natural observer state takes on the color of that system: automatic, intuitive (and not always rightly ?so), reactionary, quick to judge. As a matter of course, we go. Only when something really catches our attention or forces us to stop or ?otherwise jolts us ?do we begin to know, turning on the more thoughtful, reflective, cool sibling.
I'd like to ask what the first two underlined words represent.
I have my answers.
?so : intuitive
?otherwise : unless something really catches our attention or forces us to stop
And I'd also like to ask whether #3 'do' was inverted so it can match 'only when' of the subordinate clause.
Regards.
Top answer
1. so = intuitive (as you said) 2. or otherwise jolts us = or jolts us in some other way 3.
- 1.
- so = intuitive (as you said) 2.
- or otherwise jolts us = or jolts us in some other way 3.
- Correct.
- The initial "Only" forces the inversion.
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1. so = intuitive (as you said)
2. or otherwise jolts us = or jolts us in some other way
3. Correct. The initial "Only" forces the inversion.
CJ
2. or otherwise jolts us = or jolts us in some other way
3. Correct. The initial "Only" forces the inversion.
CJ
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