Task: Class Definition Understanding (ontology: Human_Society/EmotionOntology)

Which of the following definitions best describes 'wanting'?

A. a mental process that involves the manipulation of mental language and/or mental images
B. A mental process that manipulates mental images and words that go beyond mere memory and thoughts about the objects and entities that the person has encountered, to visualise or consider entities and states of affairs that the person has never encountered and which may not yet exist or obtain in the world. the concept is the capacity to produce images, ideas and sensations in the mind without any immediate input of the senses.
C. (for the case of the concept X, where X is an event in the organism’s history) a mental process that is a) about X, and b) made possible by the physical traces left by a causal process involving the organism during the event X
D. A mental process that involves thinking about a state of affairs that is not yet the case together with a desire for that state of affairs to come about.

Answer: A mental process that involves thinking about a state of affairs that is not yet the case together with a desire for that state of affairs to come about.