Full Idea
The content of the recognition in 'feeling towards' is different from the content of the recognition where no emotion is involved.
Gist of Idea
If we have a 'feeling towards' an object, that gives the recognition a different content
Source
Peter Goldie (The Emotions [2000], 2 'Education')
Book Reference
Goldie,Peter: 'The Emotions' [OUP 2002], p.36
A Reaction
['Feeling toward' is Goldie's coinage, to capture the intentionality in felt emotion] Interesting, but not convinced. Maybe the emotion just follows fast after the mere recognition. When I recognise a friend in a crowd, that triggers a feeling.