Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.26362/20250207
Mixed Feelings Modeled with the Fuzzy Logical Hexagon
Ivan Restović
; Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
Abstract
In this paper, I propose a logical model of mixed feelings. I claim that contrary emotions of desire, fear and indifference can be felt towards the same state of affairs and that this phenomenon can be modeled with the fuzzy logical hexagon. In the fuzzy logical hexagon, contrary notions are allowed to be true simultaneously, but with a special proviso: the sum of their values must be 100%. The same ratio, I claim, appears among the emotions of desire, fear and indifference when they are felt towards one and the same state of affairs. To calculate the percentage of an emotion in an ‘emotional ratio’, I propose an analysis of states in terms of their aspects, understood as relevant implications. For instance, a state can be both desired and feared if some of its relevant implications are desired and some feared. The present approach is in opposition to a non-realist stance in philosophy of affectivity about the possibility of simultaneous contrary emotions, where differentiation between aspects of a state is often used to explain away the possibility of mixed feelings. The proposed model also differs from some other graded formal approaches to desire and fear, which treat these two emotions separately, each according to its own logic. I claim that logic of desire and logic of fear is one and the same – that of the fuzzy logical hexagon.
Keywords
logical hexagon; fuzzy logic; mixed feelings; desire; fear; indifference
Hrčak ID:
340103
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Publication date:
27.11.2025.
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