> I can leave my food in the oven too long and I will not be surprised to find that it is burnt, but I will definitely be disappointment that I ruined my meal.
Wading deep into the philosophical weeds here, my instinct is saying that's not an apples-to-apples scenario, because each term is being used in connection to different sets of events. For example, "when I realized my alarm hadn't gone off" versus "when I got home and opened the oven door."
Perhaps the easiest way to illustrate that is to imagine the opposite scenario, where all discoveries and all self-analysis occur at the same moment in time:
1. You ask someone else to bake a pie, let it cool, and deliver the result to you later in the day.
2. A few hours later, an opaque and airtight box arrives, on time. (No clues, no warnings.) You still anticipate it contains your favorite pie.
3. You open the box to discover a blackened stinky mess!
4. At this moment you are experience both surprise (in general) and also a specific sub-type of surprise which is disappointed surprise.
Wading deep into the philosophical weeds here, my instinct is saying that's not an apples-to-apples scenario, because each term is being used in connection to different sets of events. For example, "when I realized my alarm hadn't gone off" versus "when I got home and opened the oven door."
Perhaps the easiest way to illustrate that is to imagine the opposite scenario, where all discoveries and all self-analysis occur at the same moment in time:
1. You ask someone else to bake a pie, let it cool, and deliver the result to you later in the day.
2. A few hours later, an opaque and airtight box arrives, on time. (No clues, no warnings.) You still anticipate it contains your favorite pie.
3. You open the box to discover a blackened stinky mess!
4. At this moment you are experience both surprise (in general) and also a specific sub-type of surprise which is disappointed surprise.