empathy, the ability to sympathetically understand how another person feels.
In fact, though, we can never know how another person feels. We can only know how we would feel in their position, and then make a guess at how similar or different their feelings are, based on our knowledge of them individually and our experience with people in general.
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Date: 2004-07-23 10:21 am (UTC)In fact, though, we can never know how another person feels. We can only know how we would feel in their position, and then make a guess at how similar or different their feelings are, based on our knowledge of them individually and our experience with people in general.
(I'm going to make my responses stick to one point from here on!)