[FRIAM] Does Dusty Love Dave, and VV.

[Frank Wimberly]

We took our Corgi to Arizona a couple of years after acquiring her as a
puppy.  When we were doing other things she went to our car and looked
longingly at the door.  Our interpretation was that she wanted to go home.
Homesickness?

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 10:59 AM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> [Please, Friammers,, if you join this discussion, stay close to this or
> other closely related down-to-earth experiences.
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> Dave, you offer as data:
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> *Dave is sleepy and calm.*
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> *Dusty is anxious and afraid.*
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> *Dusty crawls onto Dave's shoulder and finds reassurance and security.*
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> *Dave is tolerant and does not shove Dusty off bed.*
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> *Dave senses Dusty's need for reassurance and rests his arm across her
> back and lets her stay as she is.*
> *Dusty relaxes and goes to sleep.*
>
> You then offer the following guide to interpretation:
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> *Love is not present in this transaction, unless you presume that a series
> of prior interactions created a kind of meta-state of Lovingness between
> the two *
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> I agree with you that love is a meta state in the sense that it is an
> arrangement of other behavioral states.  So I will leave that alone.
> Having so stipulated, I think it is reasonable to say, on the basis of the
> data you set forth, that  a meta-state of lovingness exists between you.
> (I would prefer to say you love one another, but partly in deference to SG,
> I will adopt your lingo.]  To call your joint behavior loving is to perform
> an abduction.  The test of an abduction is to examine the deductions that
> flow from it:
>
> So, if Dave and Dusty have a loving relationship, then, on my
> understanding, the following would be true:
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> *You would protect one another against harm.*
> *You would attend to one another if either was sick, injured, or
> depressed.*
> *You would  become uneasy if you were separated for an unexpectedly long
> time.*
>
> Are these things true?
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> Nick
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