# Heart-Mind, Mind, Body Heart-Mind vs. Mind > ...Yin and yang are or were traditionally regarded as mainly physical properties, like cold vs. warm, female vs. male, dark vs. light, and wet vs. dry. Western philosophers suppose that the mind or a mind can function on a purely intellectual basis, with inferences, proofs, intuitions, criticisms, and reasoning—whether valid or invalid—all potentially occurring in the absence of any emotion. ....our psychological functioning necessarily and pervasively involves emotion(s) and so is necessarily a heart-mind and not a (potentially pure) mind. Second, we need to show that all emotions within a functioning heart-mind have a basic yin-yang structure. [Slote M. (2020) Yin-Yang, Mind, and Heart-Mind. In: Between Psychology and Philosophy. Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22503-2_2#citeas) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://kdoore.gitbook.io/cs1335/resources-and-references/random-inspiration/heart-mind-mind-body.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.