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This class comprises mental attitudes of an Actor guiding their opinions and activities in reaction to and taking up characteristic properties of things, ideas, situations or phenomena encountered either positively for using or following them, or negatively for avoiding them. In case of ideas, they may even be product of one’s own reasoning processes or imagination, even dreams. Things may be information, ideas, or material items. Phenomena include interactions and communications with people, but also physical experiences. The Actor may be an individual person or an E71 Group acting collectively under the impression of shared experiences and/or after forming shared opinions. It may not be a set of people distinguished within a society by common characteristics, such as “politicians” “working class” etc. Concepts of influence on the latter should rather be regarded as statistical correlations.

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