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Emotions are often considered to be feelings alone, and as such they are viewed as being devoid of conceptual content. As a result, the study of emotions is usually not taken seriously by students of semantics and conceptual structure. A topic such as The Logic of Emotion would seem on this view to be a contradiction in terms, since emotions, being devoid of conceptual content, would give rise to no inferences at all, or at least none of any interest. We would like to argue that the opposite is true, that emotions have an extremely complex conceptual structure, which gives rise to a wide variety of nontrivial inferences.
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Kövecses, Z. (1990). Anger. In: Emotion Concepts. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3312-1_4
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