Greetings Economists, I missed this in my first response. This in my view corrects my error, but is actually a much larger point than the one I responded to. On Mar 18, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
no, I think it's a personal thing. I get pissed when people don't understand even small things that I'm not committed to. I am committed to trying to clarify thought (my own, others', in that order)
Doyle, JD asserts that his feelings are not just about 'commitments' but a general sense of clarifying. I believe JD therefore shows an error in my estimate of emotion structure. I am seeing emotion structure sort of in the sense of intention and strong emotions and JD says for him that's only true sometimes and not others. This indicates then that emotion structure is actually not functioning in the way my basic understanding of intentions might say. I accept the correction and think this most important at least to my basic understanding of how emotions might work. It challenges on some level 'intentionality'. By that I mean that one feels pissed whether or not the subject is something one felt strongly about or committed to emotionally from prior history. I need to examine the literature to see if this has been talked about before about intention. thanks, Doyle Saylor
