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    It is not the case that Even granting Wang's intuitions, his metaphysics may not be the best explanation of them.

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    • 1.Darwin suggested that compassion for other humans can be explained in evolutionary terms.
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    • 2.The biophilia hypothesis provides an evolutionary explanation for human fondness for other animals and plants.
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    • 3.Although there is no obvious evolutionary explanation for engagement with non-living natural beauty, it is questionable how common that trait is.
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    • 1.Buddhist dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda) generates equivalent moral intuitions about interconnectedness without requiring Wang's liangzhi as a universal moral mind.
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    • 2.Confucian role ethics (Ames, Rosemont) grounds compassionate extension in relational obligations, explaining Wang's core moral intuitions through social ontology rather than metaphysical monism.
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    • 3.When multiple competing frameworks explain the same intuitions equally well, the explanatory uniqueness of Wang's metaphysics is undermined on standard inference-to-best-explanation criteria.
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    • 1.Phenomenological accounts (Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger) explain felt unity with nature through embodied perception without positing a shared metaphysical substance.
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    • 2.If embodied cognition explains the same intuitions Wang cites, his stronger monistic metaphysics violates Ockham's razor by multiplying ontological commitments unnecessarily.
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