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    A dispositional reading—concern is latent and contextuall... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Wang's claim that humans feel concern and regret when seeing tiles and stones broken is questionable.

    A dispositional reading—concern is latent and contextually triggered, not perpetually active—makes Wang's position immune to counterexamples from indifferent observers.

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    • 1.Dispositions explain how agents can possess concern without constantly experiencing it, matching how we understand other mental states.
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    • 2.Contextual triggering accounts for why indifferent observers lack concern manifestation without denying they could have the disposition.
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    • 3.This reading avoids requiring perpetual phenomenological evidence of concern, making the position empirically testable and psychologically plausible.
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    • 1.If concern is merely dispositional, we cannot distinguish between those with latent concern and those with no concern at all absent triggering contexts.
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    • 2.The dispositional account risks making 'concern' unfalsifiable: any failure to manifest concern can be explained by absent triggering conditions.
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    • 3.Indifferent observers may lack not just activation but the underlying disposition itself, making dispositional readings explanatorily vacuous.
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