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Also what may be explored is the relationship between Untruth and Emotion. Emotion is distinguished from
Amorphous Sensation, which is the natural sensory capabilities of the human sensory apparatus free of the reactions of consequential values. Emotion is natural sensation with associative Consequential Values attached. Thus one-person's reaction may be unaffected concerning the death of a grandfather, while another's reaction is quite visceral. The difference is that one's relationship is of greater consequence than that of the other's. Consequential Values affect Emotion and the greater the consequence the greater the emotional intensity. What is considered to be of consequence can be untrue. For instance hatred can be engendered toward someone who is thought to be a threat or to have harmed them, even though this information was received second-hand and is untrue. This emotional hatred then precedes clear or logical thinking on the subject and pre-disposes the individual to refuse to accept any refutation posed by the recipients of this slur. For those who have a high degree of emotion invested in untrue opinions, they are not likely to correct them. For many, Emotion gives validity to Untruth . The mother so loves her son that she refuses to accept that he is criminal. She will say, "I know my son, and he is not like that". By the simple act of calling someone a child molester engendering strong emotional animosity, no defense by the accused will be accepted.
The rational behind untrue consequence may become vague, forgotten or mis-represented, so that merely the Emotion
becomes the authority. In this case, in terms of Authority Reasoning, emotions like fear and hatred become authorities in themselves, as the authority from which reasoning takes place.
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