[FRIAM] Eternal questions

[⛧ glen]

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, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
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>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.   
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glen ⛧