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Is There a Passion?
There's this other way in which passion does give a clear epistemic edge, which is this idea that when you see people barely able to control their passions. It looks credible that they aren't constructing this whole appearance of barely being able to control it but are actually seeing an actual barely unable to control it. And that's compelling on the screen for a movie or whatever. We believe that a barely controlled passion is a real passion in a way that a more controlled thing we have more doubt so since you're getting to grad school with such a controlled thing, you weren't resisting it very much is we're less sure that it wasn't being done for to please your parents or something. Right