Both Uses of
underlie
in
The Magic Mountain
- he was rebuked by the Italian, however, for observing that there was an underlying error in the conventional notion that philosophical credulity and sanguine trust in the good are expressions of health, whereas pessimism and condemnation of the world are signs of illness;†
Chpt 6.8
- And yet he would have been less in love with its sound had it not been for the underlying situation, which prepared him emotionally to hear the sweet music emerging from it.†
Chpt 7.7 *
Definition:
is the root cause or basis for something;
or: lie underneath
or: lie underneath