1. Emotions have a rational basis. This claim, is quite controversial because this depends on each person's idea of rationality.
2. Emotions can never be correct or incorrect. The claim that emotions can be correct or incorrect, collapses on itself because who gets to decided what is correct or incorrect. Unlike Maths, or Physics there is usually not just one "correct answer, which is dictated by evidence and research. However, there can be a socially "correct" emotion, which again varies from society to society.
3. Language, can't fully express emotions. This is because with each different language, there are usually different experiences which that linguistic society experiences, meaning they have different word for different feelings. In the German society, there is a word which means "Homesick of the country you have never been to". Personally, I have never had this emotion, but does that mean
... the emotion doesn't exist?
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