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I have to disagree on the point of taxonomy of emotion being silly: being able to clarify to those around you that you're, for example, anxious instead of sad is a huge advantage in the process of connecting with someone. I mean, I get the idea that a word is to a thing as a shadow is to a thing - a flat imitation - but that doesn't mean the word (or the shadow) is useless or that we can't learn by examining it. We're likely not going to get to the point where we can ever truly know what happens in another individual, but words certainly help with being communal.