ABSTRACT
Emotion has several different relations to the concepts of magnitude, quantity and measurement. When one considers the variety of phenomena subsumed under the heading 'sensation-feeling' and the variety of manifestations of the thinking aspect of emotion, one realises that the relation existing between emotion and magnitude, quantity and measurement cannot be unique. The chapter identifies two aspects in sensation-feeling: definition of the stimulus (either external or within the body) and the 'internal' or intimate aspects. Experimental psychology and psycho-physics have accumulated a tremendous mass of facts which have no real bearing on the study of the intimacy of the mind. If one thinks of the beginnings of psychophysics during the last century, one is inclined to think that the initial ambition was precisely to measure mind. Macular thinking, that is propositional activity exercised at the macular level of consciousness, uses all the resources of developed thought, which include a large amount of non-symmetrical and asymmetrical relations.
