  A more promising line of argument for Wang is his appropriation of an example from the Great Learning (Commentary 6), which suggests that loving the good is “like loving a lovely sight,” while hating evil is “like hating a hateful odor” (Tiwald and Van Norden 2014, 191).  To recognize an odor as disgusting (a kind of knowing) is to be repulsed by it (a motivation), which leads to avoiding the odor or eliminating its source (actions).  The Chinese phrase rendered “loving a lovely sight” (hào hǎo sè) has connotations of finding someone sexually  attractive.[7]  To regard someone as sexually attractive (a kind of cognition) is to be drawn toward them (a kind of motivation that can lead to action).  To this, one might object that Wang’s examples show, at most, that knowing something is good or bad requires that one have some level of appropriate motivation.  Even if we grant the relevance of Wang’s examples, it is possible to have an intrinsic motivation that does not result in action.  Recognizing that someone is sexually attractive certainly does not always result in pursuing an assignation, for example.