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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Tourism & Travel
Spanish term or phrase:mediatismo
A travel writer is talking about her journey through Afghanistan. The previous sentence refers to wanting to make new discoveries that couldn't be found in books or museums:
"Intuía que, rechazando temporalmente estos fríos mediatismos, adquiriría el conocimiento que podría brindarme cualquier piedra colocada a propósito en un camino, cualquier pared de barro levantada en medio de un desierto, cualquier comida cocinada y saboreada en compañía bajo una tienda perdida en la inmensidad de la estepa."
Explanation: VII. The Temporal Order of Simple Physical Feelings
For the sake of illustration, I shall now state an account of the temporal order of simple physical feelings. A simple physical feeling is simple because it is the feeling of a single actual occasion. Each actual occasion has a simple physical feeling of every actual occasion that has already come into being. Each feels all of the actual occasions in its causal past (i.e., its actual world) (Whitehead 239). No matter how remote an actual occasion may happen to be in the causal past, there is a simple physical feeling of it even if it comes into being in the first second of our expanding universe.
Is a remote actual occasion felt differently than a proximate one? Let me contrast two sorts of answers to this question: mediatism and immediatism. The immediatist holds that every past actual occasion -- no matter how temporally remote -- is felt directly. (Cf. the concept of action at a distance.) On the other hand, the mediatist claims that only those past actual occasions that are neighbors are felt directly. (Cf. the concept of action by contact.) It is through the medium of neighboring actual occasions that actual occasions in the more distant past are felt.
Let us explore mediatism further, utilizing an illustration. When actual occasion E comes into being, actual occasion F has already come into being. F’s act of becoming is earlier than E’s act of becoming. Also, E’s basic region is connected with F’s basic region, and so F is a neighbor of E. Thus E’s feeling of F is direct. Furthermore, when F comes into being, actual occasion G has already come into being. G’s act of becoming is earlier than F’s act of becoming. And their basic regions are connected, and so they are neighbors. Thus F’s feeling of G is direct.
Explanation: The writer refers to books or museums, cold representations, bridges or links to what she (or he) is now about to experience first-hand.
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Of course, Fabio has extensively documented "mediatism", which is the exact term to be used here. My contributions seek a more accesible approach, just in case.
Sandra Rodriguez Puerto Rico Local time: 04:04 Specializes in field Native speaker of: Spanish PRO pts in category: 12
those printed words (temporarily setting aside those printed words which leave me cold)
Explanation: "printed words" in the sense of "printed media" which she appears to be referring to -- i.e. the books found in libraries and bookstores ... these printed media leave her cold, and she wants to get out into the countryside and see it for herself because it excites her.
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sorry, it should be "those printed words or relics", where the "relics" refers to the contents of the museums.
Deborah Lockett Local time: 09:04 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 155
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