Exactly. Which itself may take seconds-to-months depending on the circumstances and chemistry ;-)
the answer to one particular question does not reveal or determine my whole worth
Hmmm... no, it doesn't. But it is a momentary evaluation, of sorts... it reveals a small piece of my worth, in the eyes of that given person at that instant. If I sum (actually, integrate) enough evaluation-function-pieces, I start to approach a worth-estimate. The integral over time resembles a kind of social desirability function which I can track...
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Date: 2003-01-31 07:14 am (UTC)Exactly. Which itself may take seconds-to-months depending on the circumstances and chemistry ;-)
the answer to one particular question does not reveal or determine my whole worth
Hmmm... no, it doesn't. But it is a momentary evaluation, of sorts... it reveals a small piece of my worth, in the eyes of that given person at that instant. If I sum (actually, integrate) enough evaluation-function-pieces, I start to approach a worth-estimate. The integral over time resembles a kind of social desirability function which I can track...