Can a person define anger when he or she is angry?
The same structure of questioning can be used of other emotions, such as: Can a person define envy when he or she is envious? Or Can a person define disappointment when he or she is disappointed? An emotion is defined only by a person who has observed the causes, activity, and results of an emotion expressed by another person. In this way knowledge is divorced from the fact, as a result of which some people can become talking glossaries of specialized terms or jargons to stupefy others. It is easy to be a specialist by making something difficult. While defining an emotion, such as anger, in a certain way, we happen to ignore the fact that such a definition does not represent that emotion; rather, it only refers to it. That is why the study of such definitions cannot help change life. A definition can never represent a fact. It can at best describe some features of a certain reality viewed from a specific angle. While somebody may be angry for a certain reason, another person may not be
