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    It is not the case that For affective empathy to be genuine, the empathizer's affective state must be directed toward the same intentional object as the target's affective state, not merely share a similar phenomenal quality.

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    • 1.Phenomenal contagion—catching another's fear without grasping its object—still constitutes a primitive, genuine form of affective empathy recognized by Hoffman's empathy-altruism research.
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    • 2.Requiring intentional object-sharing conflates empathy with the more cognitively demanding capacity of perspective-taking, collapsing a distinction central to developmental psychology.
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    • 1.On Scheler's account, emotional resonance (Nachfühlen) is grounded in a direct non-inferential sharing of felt quality prior to any identification of intentional objects.
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    • 2.Imposing intentional object-matching as a necessary condition presupposes a Brentanian internalist framework that phenomenologists like Zahavi explicitly reject in favor of intercorporeal attunement.
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    • 1.Vicarious sharing of an affect is more than being in an affectively similar state.
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    • 2.The empathizer's affective state must be about what makes the other person feel the way they do.
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