ABSTRACT
In ordinary language, a distinction is made between cognition (intellect) and emotion. At least this is true in English, and I assume that it is true in other languages as well. Cognition includes “higher” thought processes; it is the special domain of the human being—the “rational animal.” The emotions, by contrast, are “lower”; they are common to both humans and infrahuman animals, and they are closely linked to physiological change (i.e., they are “gut reactions”).
