Hope, expectation and desiar are not same. psychologicaly they are differerent aspects of mind. can one form a logical system on these three? I am trying to do so, if any one interested please join me.
Hi Subrata,
I think defining these notions clearly is the problem here. Maybe, you should tag this question as "cognitive semantics" or something.
For me, expectation is an epistemological state in which a subject's current knowledge (either propositional or implicit) predicts a world state to occur.
In the cases of hope and desire, we can talk about a certain attitude of the subject towards a certain state of the world. And, again for me, hope is about more plausible things like "I hope it rains etc.", but desire is about like everything. I am thinking Turkish, so a native speaker can be more helpful on this.
By the way, are there any epistemological definitions of this kind of things I wonder. Because, it seems to me that all of these are about our relationship with knowledge.
Though hope, expectation and desire all are synonymous terms but, I think
1. we 'desire' or 'expect' things when the likelihood of occurrence is high but we 'hope' when it is less.
2. We always 'hope' or 'desire' for good things but we 'expect' for both bad and good.
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