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Adam Morton, II—Adam Morton: Emotional Accuracy, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, Volume 76, Issue 1, 1 July 2002, Pages 265–275, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8349.00099
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Abstract
It is accuracy rather than truth itself that is valuable. Emotional truth is a dubious though attractive notion, but emotional accuracy is much easier to make sense of. My approach to accuracy goes via an account of what makes a story accurate. Stories can be accurate but not true, and emotions can be accurate whether or not they are true. The capacity for emotional accuracy, for emotions that fit a person’s situation, is an aspect of emotional intelligence, which is as important an aspect of rational human agency as the intelligent formation of beliefs and desires.