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    It is not the case that A theory that is not committed to identifying who is attending fails to explain what aesthetic attitude actually selects or excludes.

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    • 1.Aesthetic properties may be objective features of objects themselves, independent of any particular attendee's identity.
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    • 2.Identifying attendees risks collapsing aesthetics into psychology, confusing subjective response with objective judgment.
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    • 3.A theory can explain selection through formal features and contextual conditions without positing specific attendee identities.
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    • 1.Aesthetic attitude involves selective attention—what we attend to shapes what we perceive as aesthetically relevant.
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    • 2.Without identifying the attendee's perspective, we cannot explain why the same object differs aesthetically across viewers.
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    • 3.Selection requires a selector: ignoring who attends obscures the mechanism by which aesthetic properties become salient.
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