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With the previous about feelings, satisfactions, and ethics as prologue, I will try to show that it is plausible to mean by "A loves B" that: (1) A has strong feelings of attraction in general, or to some reasonable extent, for B, (2) A, in general or to some reasonable extent, enjoys B (that is, A in general or to some reasonable extent is satisfied by B and by the things B does), particularly in areas of psychological importance (or meaningfulness) to A, and without particular disappointment or dissatisfaction in other such psychologically important (meaningful) areas, and (3) B is good for (or to) A; that is, the things B does are good for A. [This last condition will be stated more correctly after the section on ethics, but for now, this is a sufficient statement of the...