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[Paprika]

This is a common use of the word in modern English.

Which precisely demonstrates the emotivism endemic in the culture: 'I feel' can not only replace 'I think' but outweighs it since people are less likely to disagree because they don't want to hurt one's feels.

[Epoetker]

Which precisely demonstrates the emotivism endemic in the culture: 'I feel' can not only replace 'I think' but outweighs it since people are less likely to disagree because they don't want to hurt one's feels.

That and the process of thinking becomes seriously neutered/devalued with a university education.

[Teallaura]

It's equally irrational to omit emotional considerations - people think and act with their emotions engaged. Assuming otherwise is nonsense.

[KingsGambit]

No, it's the contemporary masses' obsessions with their internal emotional states that is highly abnormal.


Then don't use the emotive 'feel' and use a word that connotes rational consideration.

Please stop bogging down every thread I start into side semantic debates, or refrain from posting.