In the heat metaphor, suppose you'd previously adopted a 'caloric fluid' model of heat, and the explicit belief that this caloric fluid was what was valuable\. You still have wordless intuitions about warmth and good feelings about warmth; you also have an explicit world\-model that this heat corresponds to caloric, and an explicit moral theory that this caloric is what's good\.
Did you mean to use "caloric" instead of "caloric fluid" here (and many following places)? I keep reading it like it's an adjective and expecting a following noun.