Walton claims that fear for oneself includes two requirements, one is a physiological state of being that is characteristic for feeling fear and that one holds the appropriate belief, the second is that having an emotion like fear requires being motivated, or having the tendency to do certain things. Walton then uses those claims to show that although we might think we are feeling fear, we in actuality are feeling a quasi or fictional fear.
Our fictional emotion comes from us believing the fiction is fictionally real and does not meet the requirements for a real emotion. A monster attacking a character is an example of how although we believe we are feeling fear in reality we are not because we have no motivation to react as though the monster
Our fictional emotion comes from us believing the fiction is fictionally real and does not meet the requirements for a real emotion. A monster attacking a character is an example of how although we believe we are feeling fear in reality we are not because we have no motivation to react as though the monster