One companion and its reference page call a definition of boredom precise where the paper only proposes it
Weaker than written: a claim stands, but we would now qualify it.
One companion, on the binge trigger, and the reference page for the paper it leans on both introduce boredom as “precisely defined” as the aversive experience of wanting, but being unable, to engage in satisfying activity. The words are the paper’s. The firmness is ours. The paper conceptualizes boredom that way and proposes that it be defined in terms of attention; it does not report a settled definition. A proposal stated as settled tells the reader the question is closed when the authors themselves left it open.
The claim itself stands, and the paper’s attentional account is the one we meant to convey. The two lines will be softened to the paper’s own register when the companion next passes through fact-checking. Until then, read “precisely defined” as “proposed”.
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Affects 1 companion page and 1 page. 0 corrected.
Affected pages last measured 29 October 2026.