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Sigma KEE - Disgust
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disgust
A negative emotion which guards the body against dangerous foods and microbial infections. The basic physiological disgust has also culturally evolved to incorporate moral disgust which protects the self from nonphysical threats such as moral violations. [Source: OCEAS]
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Children animal-nature disgustDisgust elicited by poor hygeine, inappropriate sex, gore or violations of bodily boundaries, and death or the odor of decay. [Source: OCEAS]
 core disgustDisgust elicited by "contaminated" food substances: rotten food, culturally variable "bad" food, certain animals associated with rotten food (maggots, rats), and every body product except tears. [Source: OCEAS]
 interpersonal disgustDisgust elicited by contact with others, especially contact with strangers or other individuals or groups we are averse to. [Source: OCEAS]
 moral disgustDisgust elicited by some kinds of especially egregious moral violations. [Source: OCEAS]
InstancesabstractProperties or qualities as distinguished from any particular embodiment of the properties/qualities in a physical medium. Instances of Abstract can be said to exist in the same sense as mathematical objects such as sets and relations, but they cannot exist at a particular place and time without some physical encoding or embodiment.
 attributeQualities which we cannot or choose not to reify into subclasses of.
 biological attributeAttributes that apply specifically to instances of OrganicObject (Organism or AnatomicalStructure).
 emotional stateThe Class of Attributes that denote emotional states of Organisms.
 entityThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 internal attributeAny Attribute of an Entity that is an internal property of the Entity, e.g. its shape, its color, its fragility, etc.
 psychological attributeAttributes that characterize the mental or behavioral life of an Organism.
 state of mindThe class StateOfMind is distinguished from its complement TraitAttribute by the fact that instances of the former are transient while instances of the latter are persistent features of a creature's behavioral/psychological make-up.
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