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Here is my opinion, together with research, about several of the questions surrounding the concept of passion. Please remember that these are my opinions, and that you are encouraged to study and create your own. If you have any new or different views, please post a reply here or send them to my email account What_Is_Passion@hotmail.com . I'd be glad to hear from you and discuss anything that you'd like on a one-on-one basis. I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks so much for your support! ![]()
Are we emotional beings, prone to creating fallacy after fallacy, blind to the reality that we are living a lie?
Aristotle developed three laws of thought to determine what something is and what it is not. His three laws of thought are: 
1.) The law of non-contradiction - something cannot be one thing and yet another at the same time
2.) The law of the excluded middle - something is either one thing or another, never both
3.) The law of identity - something is what it is. To say it is something else is incorrect ("Philosophy Questions & Theories" 52)
* According to these three laws of thought, passion must be either 100% emotion or 100% logic. Since passion has long been considered invalid in the study of philosophy (due to its many connotations), passion would have to be 100% emotion, such as a state of euphoria.
* If such is so, then love is a fallacy. The fallacy of love appeals to emotion by using strong emotional language to provoke desired feelings and reactions, with a lack of legitimate reasoning for the acceptance of such feelings and ideas. (Ibid., 76-77)
Jeremy Bentham
* Passion is the natural progression of human nature. Once we succeed in meeting our basic survival needs, we naturally begin to seek more forms of physical pleasure. (Ibid., 26) Therefore, there must be an amount of logic involved in the concept of passion if it is the natural progression of human nature (if we assume that logic has a fundamental role in human instinct).