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    It is not the case that A theory grounding beauty in objective perfection is categorically distinct from one grounding it in a subjective free play of faculties, regardless of surface terminological similarities.

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    • 1.Both theories must explain inter-subjective agreement on beauty. Both face similar explanatory burdens despite different metaphysical commitments.
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    • 2.The distinction collapses practically: objective perfection theories still require human faculties to recognize it; subjective accounts still appeal to structured norms.
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    • 3.Many hybrid positions (e.g., response-dependent accounts) occupy the middle ground, suggesting the categorical divide is not exhaustive of real options.
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    • 1.Objective perfection theories entail mind-independent standards; subjective accounts deny this. These generate opposite commitments about beauty's existence.
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    • 2.Objectivist theories make beauty discoverable through reason; subjective accounts make it constituted by individual cognitive processes. Epistemically distinct.
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    • 3.Calling both 'grounded in' obscures that one posits external grounds while the other locates grounds in perceiving subjects themselves.
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