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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 whose prescriptions are constitutively unable to produce the outcomes they target should redirect itself toward understanding rather than prescribing.

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    • 1.Prescriptive failure signals a gap between theory and reality that only descriptive investigation can bridge.
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    • 2.Resources spent on failed prescriptions could instead fund understanding that eventually enables better interventions.
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    • 3.Understanding-first approaches avoid the harm of confidently implementing prescriptions with unknown consequences.
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    • 1.Some prescriptive failures reflect implementation problems, not theoretical inadequacy—redirecting abandons solvable issues.
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    • 2.Understanding without prescription offers no value to practitioners needing guidance now, even if imperfect.
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    • 3.Prescriptive work itself often generates the understanding needed; divorcing them may actually slow progress.
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