Nah. An emotion is exactly analogous to your thumb, registerable both as a separate object and a compositional part of you, composed in both space and time, with all that part-whole relations imply.
On August 23, 2021 8:30:52 PM PDT, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > >In general the grammar of the two words is different. If you say I had >something, I am sent looking for a property, possession or attribute. If you >say I did something, I am sent looking for an action I performed. So, there >is a vast inclination to make emotion words as a reference to something we >carry inside, rather than a pattern in what we do. This seems to me like >misdirection, a category error in Ryle’s terms. > > > >Does that help? -- glen ⛧ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
