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I've always thought of feeling as a low-resolution language. Anything you can feel you can express in words. But not the other way around.
by isaacfrond 4y ago
I've always thought of feeling as a low-resolution language. Anything you can feel you can express in words. But not the other way around.
- mistercow 4y agoCan you? You can label feelings and hope that other people mean the same thing when you say those labels. You can relate them to common experiences and hope other people have had similar reactions. But I often self-examine on emotional experiences which I can only gesture at verbally, with low confidence that I would be able to express them to someone who hadn’t experienced the same thing.
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoThe fact you can describe almost anything in words is because that is what language is for. A representation of something is not the thing itself though. Unless you are also claiming that words describing a picture are a picture, and words describing an elephant are an elephant.