Newguest Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
They yet are passive
Hi
An author of a book writes how thinking influences our lives. He says:
The world may be divided into two classes of people: (1) those who
overcome life, and (2) those who are overcome by life. Those who
overcome life's difficulties are those who do so in thought. Those who
are overcome by life's difficulties, are those who do not overcome in
thought. If the latter have not deliberately made a practice of "dodging"
unpleasant thoughts in an unfortunate attempt to follow a form of wrong
thinking which they erroneously believed to be right-thinking, they yet
are passive; that is, they fail to overcome, in thought, the difficulty that
must be overcome, sooner or later, in actual experience.
I'd like to ask about "they yet are passive".
Does "yet" in the example above mean the same as "yet" in this example: "not yet"?
And does this phrase sound correct to you here? To me it sounds awkward, but maybe it's just me.
An author of a book writes how thinking influences our lives. He says:
The world may be divided into two classes of people: (1) those who
overcome life, and (2) those who are overcome by life. Those who
overcome life's difficulties are those who do so in thought. Those who
are overcome by life's difficulties, are those who do not overcome in
thought. If the latter have not deliberately made a practice of "dodging"
unpleasant thoughts in an unfortunate attempt to follow a form of wrong
thinking which they erroneously believed to be right-thinking, they yet
are passive; that is, they fail to overcome, in thought, the difficulty that
must be overcome, sooner or later, in actual experience.
I'd like to ask about "they yet are passive".
Does "yet" in the example above mean the same as "yet" in this example: "not yet"?
And does this phrase sound correct to you here? To me it sounds awkward, but maybe it's just me.
Top answer
Hi, Newguest. "Yet" means "still" here. They do X to avoid being Y, but they fail.
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Hi, Newguest.
"Yet" means "still" here.
They do X to avoid being Y, but they fail.
They think they are being pro-active, but they are still/yet passive. (They continue to be passive.)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yet
See adv. 2 b
"Yet" means "still" here.
They do X to avoid being Y, but they fail.
They think they are being pro-active, but they are still/yet passive. (They continue to be passive.)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yet
See adv. 2 b
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Hi Avangi. Thanks for the answer.
But don't you think that the construction of this sentence is bad. Why did the author put "if" at the beginning of that sentence?
I would write it like this:
The 2nd group of people deliberately makes a practice of "dodging" unpleasant thoughts following a form of wrong thinking which they erroneosuly believe is right-thinking. Unfortuna
But don't you think that the construction of this sentence is bad. Why did the author put "if" at the beginning of that sentence?
I would write it like this:
The 2nd group of people deliberately makes a practice of "dodging" unpleasant thoughts following a form of wrong thinking which they erroneosuly believe is right-thinking. Unfortuna
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NewguestIf the latter have not deliberately made a practice of "dodging" unpleasant thoughts in an unfortunate attempt to follow a form of wrong thinking which they erroneously believed to be right-thinking, they yetThe paragraph is not well written, in my opinion.
are passive;
I agree that there's a logi
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