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you should talk more about your feelings and less about your ideas
hm i dislike how i made this an issue of epistemology. in some ways its a statement of contextual emotivism (sometimes your ideas are actually feelings) and an instruction to pay attention to those emotions and take them seriously on their own terms rather than bringing your own arbitrary material
i don't think its easier to know or to articulate emotions
what i meant to be saying was that in the case of an emotional cause of a position, you're not going to get anywhere closer to understanding what's going on by investigating the position itself, and in that way if you begin at the right location it is easier to come to appropriate knowledge
again thats simplistic because it could be seen as treating the emotions with a certain level of unmediated givenness and yes, primacy, that i don't intend. the emotivism was a poor metaphor. the mistake is beginning to look at the causal chain for origins,
which is already disrespecting the inner objectivity of both the ideas and the emotions