How do you not connect with anger a hidden variable that correlates with punching, kicking, shouting, assuming a facial expression recognized as anger by independent judges, and saying "When you punch me in the face, I feel angry"?
the useful bits of "variable X" are the behaviors you expect to see because of it. The word "Anger" is just a tag for a particular grouping of phenomena.
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