how to understand this sentence?
How to understand this sentence?
The nature of feeling is simply appreciation; it is "knowing a good thing when you see it" and also a bad thing, and all the shades of betterness and worseness which the world presents of estimation.

Thanks so so much.

Question

how to understand this sentence?
How to understand this sentence?
The nature of feeling is simply appreciation; it is "knowing a good thing when you see it" and also a bad thing, and all the shades of betterness and worseness which the world presents of estimation.

Thanks so so much.

Answer

I don't like this sentence. It's unnecessarily difficult.

To me, it is telling us that 'feelings' are actually 'thoughts'. When we see something, our brain decides how good or how bad it is, and then our brain creates a 'feeling' based on that decision.

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