S0149 · st_augustine_confessions · registry identity
Confessions
How Hirsch uses it
Every occurrence, grouped by book and chapter, with the claim it was linked to support and (where the extraction regenerated one) the underlying warrant.
1977 · The Philosophy of Composition
St. Augustine's phenomenological description of repeating a psalm, which illustrates the shift from expectation to memory through a 'marking faculty.'
direct The production and reception of speech involve a paradox where a temporal sequence of discourse is unified with nontemporal expected and remembered meanings.
Warrant (implicit): The subjective experience of an individual performing a linguistic act provides a reliable basis for a universal theory of how the human mind integrates time-bound sequences into meaning.
could fail ifPhenomenological introspection into one's own mental state during a highly familiar, memorized task (like a psalm) may not accurately reflect the cognitive processes involved in reading new, unfamiliar prose.
Augustine's introspective analysis of reciting a psalm, illustrating how memory and expectation unify an action into a nontemporal whole.
direct The production and reception of speech involve a paradox where a temporal sequence of discourse is unified with nontemporal expected and remembered meanings.
Warrant (explicit): Complex cognitive activities that occur over time are unified in consciousness by a simultaneous awareness of what has passed and what is expected to occur.
could fail ifThe 'nontemporal' unity of a known psalm relies on perfect memory, whereas reading prose involves an uncertain expectation that may not integrate as a 'whole' until well after the event.
1996 · The Schools We Need
St. Augustine's account of stealing pears in his Confessions used as an illustration of the doctrine of original sin.
direct The doctrine of original sin implies that human nature is corrupt from birth and must be corrected rather than followed.
Warrant (implicit): An anecdotal account of human behavior can serve as a valid representative model for the inherent moral state of the entire species.
could fail ifAugustine’s specific psychological experience of guilt and peer pressure may reflect personal or cultural neurosis rather than a universal biological or spiritual corruption.
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Augustine, Confessions, Book VISt. Augustine, Confessions