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    It is not the case that A painted rose by Huysum is more admirable than a river's reflection of a rose.

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    • 1.Natural phenomena, being uncaused by human intention, cannot be evaluated by standards of craft or artifice, making comparison category-mistaken.
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    • 2.Kant argues in the Critique of Judgment that free natural beauty is superior to adherent beauty, which is constrained by a concept of purpose.
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    • 3.A reflection's beauty is free beauty (pulchritudo vaga), while Huysum's painting is adherent beauty judged against a prior concept of 'correct rose.'
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    • 1.Schopenhauer holds that natural objects more purely instantiate Platonic Ideas than artworks, which are mediated by individual artistic will.
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    • 2.The river's reflection, being unmediated by human intention, presents the Idea of the rose with less distortion than a painter's selective rendering.
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    • 1.Works of art display the perfection of the artist's rational spirit.
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    • 2.A river's reflection is a mere similarity produced by a lifeless thing.
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    • 3.The perfection of rational beings is elevated above the perfection of lifeless things.
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