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    Supports→Aesthetics must confine itself to understanding the work of artists and our experience of their work, without prescribing rules for how artists should produce beautiful works.

    A discipline that distorts its subject matter fails its primary epistemic obligation, making descriptive aesthetics the only intellectually honest option.

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    • 1.Normative frameworks impose pre-existing values onto aesthetic phenomena, obscuring what art and beauty actually are in lived experience.
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    • 2.Descriptive methods achieve intersubjective verification; normative claims about aesthetic value lack comparable empirical grounding.
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    • 3.Disciplines claiming epistemic authority while distorting their subject matter undermine trust in their conclusions and institutional credibility.
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    • 1.Description itself requires frameworks; 'pure' observation of aesthetic phenomena is impossible without some evaluative lens.
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    • 2.Normative aesthetics addresses questions (what makes art valuable?) that descriptive methods cannot answer without smuggling in hidden norms.
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    • 3.Multiple legitimate disciplines—ethics, physics, medicine—combine descriptive and normative inquiry without forfeiting intellectual honesty.
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