Doyle, in general, I'd say that it's hard to separate intellectual and emotional matters.
On 3/18/06, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles
