Re: [lojban] Re: semantic primes can define anything

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 3/24/06, John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> While I don't have a complete list of all the
> readily available NSM English definitions, all
> the one I do have use FEEL in the emotion sense,
> not the sensation one: "Feel something good"
> refers to an emotion, not Angelina Jolie's left
> tit.

As I understand it, it does not refer to active feeling,
but to any passive feeling, be it of sensations or emotions.
See
http://elies.rediris.es/Language_Design/LD2/wierzbicka.pdf
where Wierzbicka writes, among other things: "I am
suggesting, then, that while the concept of 'feeling'
is universal and can be safely used in the investigation
of human experience and human nature, [...] the concept
of 'emotion' is culture-bound, and cannot be similarly
relied on."

One example she gives is the "feeling of hunger", which
is not an "emotion of hunger".

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