If I discovered something redemptive in this experience, it's that capacity for stillness.
"As a teenager, if I discovered one Mahler symphony I had to know all of them — one Wagner opera, I had to know them all," Mr. Chan said.
I'd be surprised if I agreed with Jeremy Clarkson's views on the trade union movement, but not as surprised as if I discovered that they were that strikers should be shot.
I feared that my love for the book's title would be tarnished if I discovered the book itself to be one of the group's typically lumbering and self-satisfied frolics.
We are not the ghostly adjuncts of our own natures, and loving our children isn't false consciousness; if I discovered my distant progeny would one day teem the surface of the earth like so many roaches, it wouldn't put a spring in my step today.
Overuse, of course, might be a problem, but if I were an editor I would also write a shouty note if I discovered that my writers were routinely overusing pre-digital-age and perfectly grown-up words such as litotes and plinth.
("Even if I discovered the cure for the common cold, I'd still just be John F. Kennedy Jr.'s wife, who lucked out and was handed the cure for the common cold".) But all that is what we've come to expect from these Kennedy movies.
Joan Marshall Fort Myers, Fla., Jan . 16 2008 To the Editor: Steven E. Landsburg suggests that if I discovered I could buy shampoo online at a lower price than I had been paying at my local pharmacy, I would do so, and that I would feel no obligation to compensate my pharmacist.
In the charging bull case (which is Gendler's own example), we can tell whether my running from the bull is belief- or alief-driven by considering whether additional counterfactual information could change my desire to flee from the bull (e.g., if I discovered that death by bull-goring would be a painless path to eternal salvation).
What if I discovered the next fad diet?
If I discovered the team behind it really was neurotic, it'd lessen the game's reckless, wanton appeal.
