My “good future prospects” definitely covers your “anticipation of a result”.
Good point; I just was using a slightly different meaning of “anticipation” than the one implied by the context of, “grounded in reality—caused by perceiving … good future prospects”.
In that sense of “anticipation”, the mental activity is passive—perceiving that something good is already going to happen, by projecting from current circumstances.
In the sense I meant, the activity is active—you intentionally create a sense of anticipation for something that has no “grounding in reality” and is not “caused by perceiving”. (Indeed, in the ideal case, it is entirely ungrounded in current perceptual reality, so as to be based solely upon one’s intentions.)
My “good future prospects” definitely covers your “anticipation of a result”.
Good point; I just was using a slightly different meaning of “anticipation” than the one implied by the context of, “grounded in reality—caused by perceiving … good future prospects”.
In that sense of “anticipation”, the mental activity is passive—perceiving that something good is already going to happen, by projecting from current circumstances.
In the sense I meant, the activity is active—you intentionally create a sense of anticipation for something that has no “grounding in reality” and is not “caused by perceiving”. (Indeed, in the ideal case, it is entirely ungrounded in current perceptual reality, so as to be based solely upon one’s intentions.)