b) the same as
a), but the face is
not familiar to me immediately.
After a little, recognition “dawns upon me.”
I say, “Oh, it's you”, but with
totally different inflexion than in
a).
(Consider tone of voice, inflexion, gestures, as
essential
parts of our experience, not as inessential accompaniments or mere
means of communication.
(Compare p. 104–5)).
c) There is an experience directed towards people
or things which we see every day when suddenly we feel them to be
“old acquaintances” or “good old
friends”; one might also describe the feeling as one of warmth
or of being at home with them.
d) My room with all the objects in it is
thoroughly familiar to me.
When I enter it in the morning do I greet the familiar chairs, tables,
etc., with a feeling of “Oh,
hello!”? or have such a feeling as described in
c)?
But isn't the way I walk about in it, take something out of a
drawer, sit down, etc. different from my behaviour in a
room I don't know?
And why shouldn't I say therefore, that I had experiences of
familiarity whenever I lived amongst these familiar objects?
e) Isn't it an experience of
familiarity when on being asked, “Who is this
man?” I answer straight away (or after some
reflection), “It is
so-and-so”?
Compare with this experience,
f), that of looking at
the written word “feeling” and saying,
“This is
A's handwriting” and
on the other hand
g) the experience of reading the
word, which also is an experience of familiarity.