Or do you just think you feel it?I feel your pain Purple.
Telling someone how you feel and telling someone that you have formed an opinion about a topic based purely on how you feel are very different things.Have you no feelings Purple?
Just because someone cannot put what they are feeling into words, doesn't mean what they are feeling is meritless or false.
It depends on context.
But in your opening post, it wasn't clear you meant discussion about a topic - as opposed to a personal conversation.Telling someone how you feel and telling someone that you have formed an opinion about a topic based purely on how you feel are very different things.
That's that the preface "Well I just feel" is telling one's audience.
"What do you think about Russia's justification for its invasion of Ukraine?" and "What do you feel about Russia's invasion of Ukraine" are, for similar reasons, very different questions.
They are very different things. One requires thinking, the other requires feeling.People these days talk about emotional intelligence or emotional quotient which means that thinking or feeling are not as far apart as we used to believe.
Fair enough. It's when someone prefaces their opinion on a topic, say the Ukraine War or Trans Rights or Housing or whatever other hot topic is discussed, with the words "Well I just feel that...". In a discussion of that nature what you think is what matters, not what you feel. You don't counter an argument about, for example, the economic implications of Irish Unity with "Irish Unity will make me feel happy".But in your opening post, it wasn't clear you meant discussion about a topic - as opposed to a personal conversation.
And in discussion of a topic, you can both express how you feel about it as a problem and what you think about it in terms of a solution.
In the specific context of a discussion \ argument yes.Fair enough. It's when someone prefaces their opinion on a topic, say the Ukraine War or Trans Rights or Housing or whatever other hot topic is discussed, with the words "Well I just feel that...". In a discussion of that nature what you think is what matters, not what you feel. You don't counter an argument about, for example, the economic implications of Irish Unity with "Irish Unity will make me feel happy".
But if they “just” feel.In the specific context of a discussion \ argument yes.
But let's say you are trying to guage opinion on something as an issue - then important to pay attention to how people 'feel' about something.
Dunno who said it... not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.They are very different things. One requires thinking, the other requires feeling.
It's fair to say the an IQ test is a narrow way of testing intelligence. How do we test EQ (Emotional Quotient)?
No interest in why people feel the way they do... or how what they feel affects what they think?But if they “just” feel.
I’m interested in what people think, not what they feel
Perhaps depends on the topic at hand but to me feel refers more to emotion and think to logic. I have a strong preference for logic, and my inclination would be to put less value on what someone tells me they feel versus what they think. I'd suspect someone using the term feel is just making it up on the spot whereas someone who thinks has applied knowledge and logic.In reality, a sentence beginning with “I think” has no more merit than “I feel”.
Exactly.Perhaps depends on the topic at hand but to me feel refers more to emotion and think to logic. I have a strong preference for logic, and my inclination would be to put less value on what someone tells me they feel versus what they think. I'd suspect someone using the term feel is just making it up on the spot whereas someone who thinks has applied knowledge and logic.
Only if they aren't thinking about what they are saying.Whether or not they should, people use the terms interchangeably.
The person who feels that "I feel" is interchangeable with "I think" hasn't thought about it.In reality, a sentence beginning with “I think” has no more merit than “I feel”.
No, what they think affects how they feel.No interest in why people feel the way they do... or how what they feel affects what they think?
It's more important to understand their opinions.If you understand the feelings of your audience then you can tailor how you deliver your thoughts so they will be more open to them.
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