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    It is not the case that Barrett's Conceptual Act View prevents infants and non-human animals from having emotions

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    • 1.On Barrett's view, having an emotion requires categorizing a core affective state under an emotion concept
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    • 2.Infants and non-human animals lack the conceptual repertoire required to perform such categorization
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    • 3.Therefore infants and non-human animals cannot have emotions on this view
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    • 1.Barrett explicitly defines emotions as 'conceptual acts' requiring linguistic and cultural scaffolding unavailable to pre-linguistic organisms.
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    • 2.Conceptual scaffolding in Barrett's framework is constitutive of emotion, not merely causally upstream from it, making language a necessary condition.
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    • 3.Infants and non-human animals lack the culturally transmitted emotion concepts Barrett identifies as the very medium through which affective states become emotions.
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    • 1.Sellars' 'Myth of the Given' supports Barrett's denial that raw affective states carry intrinsic emotional content without conceptual mediation.
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    • 2.If emotional experience requires the kind of norm-governed conceptual space Sellars and Barrett invoke, then organisms outside that space have only proto-emotional affect, not emotions proper.
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