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    Supports→The objection that deserving requires an appraising attitude fails if pity or compassion counts as an appraising attitude.

    An emotion constitutively involving such normative judgment is an appraising attitude by any plausible definition, circumventing the objection's assumption that only favorable/unfavorable attitudes qualify.

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    Assumption(Meinong, On Assumptions (1902))
    A thought that merely involves entertaining the objectives it is directed at, without conviction; affirmative or negative like judgements but without belief like representations
    Constitutively involving(as used in analytical philosophy)
    Being an essential or built-in part of something, rather than just accompanying it—like how wetness is constitutively part of water, not just added to it.
    Favorable/unfavorable attitudes(as used in philosophy of emotion)
    The assumption that emotions are just basic likes and dislikes—viewing something positively or negatively without complex reasoning involved.
    Normative judgment(as used in ethics)
    A statement about how things *should* be or what people *ought* to do, rather than just describing how things actually are.

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    appraising attitude(Used in the context of desert theory to characterize the attitudes that desert claims are thought to license or require.)
    An evaluative stance directed at a person, which the author suggests may include not only favorable attitudes (such as admiration) and unfavorable attitudes (such as condemnation) but also attitudes such as pity or compassion.
    emotion(Component Process Model of emotion; distinguishes emotion from mood, affect, and other affective phenomena by requiring multi-system synchronization triggered by appraisal)
    An episode of interrelated, synchronized changes in the states of all or most of the five organismic subsystems in response to the evaluation of an external or internal stimulus event as relevant to major concerns of the organism.
    objection(as a scientific critique)
    A logical problem or reason why something might not work or be true. Einstein found what he thought was a flaw in Weyl's theory.

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