ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author aims to elaborate and provide support for the claim that the thought is mundane. To expose this characteristic more fully, she presents the (canonical) thought on a continuum of assertions that affirm the existence of realities ranging from the miraculous to the mundane. The author introduces some new, noncanonical examples of the thought. Sigmund Freud thinks that his thought on the Acropolis expressed at least in part the kind of shock that one would feel upon encountering a miracle. People find various spectacles astonishing and describe them as miraculous, although they do not mean miraculous in its full-blown sense of involving the supernatural. Insofar as Freud's thought observes something mundane, it might occur in mundane settings, and not only in settings that one usually thinks of as awe-inspiring, such as a visit to the Acropolis. The thought could assert a mundane statement while still requiring as inspiration an awe-inspiring setting.
