The description of getting up in which a man says, “I just
find myself getting up”, suggests that he wishes to say that he
observes himself getting up.
And we may certainly say that an attitude of observing is absent in
this case.
But the observing attitude again is not one continuous state of
mind or
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otherwise which we
are in the whole time while, as we should say, we are observing.
Rather, there is a family of groups of activities and experiences which
we call observing attitudes.
Roughly speaking one might say there are observation elements of
curiosity, observant expectation, surprise, and there are, we should say,
facial expressions and gestures of curiosity, of observant expectation,
and of surprise; and if you agree that there is more than one facial
expression characteristic for each of these cases, and that there can
be these cases without any characteristic facial express
ion,
you will admit that to each of these three words a
family of
phenomena corresponds.