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    Challenges→A performance that departs from the prescribed notes may still count as a rendering of the original work by virtue of symbolic reference to and exemplification of that work, even while being ontologically an instance of a distinct work.

    A theory that permits ontological distinctness and symbolic relatedness to do the work of identity conflates the metaphysical question of what a work is with the aesthetic question of what a performance is about.

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    • 1.Identity requires sufficient conditions; ontological distinctness alone leaves identity indeterminate without additional metaphysical grounding.
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    • 2.Symbolic relatedness describes aesthetic content, not constitutive identity—confusing these categories obscures what makes a work persistently itself.
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    • 3.The metaphysical and aesthetic questions are logically distinct: what something is differs from what it represents or means.
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    • 1.Many legitimate identity criteria (artworks, persons) necessarily involve both metaphysical and interpretive-aesthetic dimensions without category confusion.
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    • 2.The claim assumes a sharp metaphysical/aesthetic boundary, but artistic identity may be fundamentally hybrid—neither purely one nor the other.
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    • 3.Rejecting symbolic relatedness as identity-constituting removes explanatory power for why performances of the same work maintain recognized continuity.
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    Key Terms

    Aesthetic question(as used in aesthetics)
    A question about how something is experienced, what it means to us, or how it creates an emotional or artistic impact.
    Conflate(the criticism being made in the statement)
    To mistakenly treat two different things as if they were the same thing.
    Identity(Adams treats identity statements as a variety of atomic formula rather than a logical truth exempt from existence presuppositions)
    A relation between an object and itself, expressed as an atomic formula (a=a), subject to the same existence-entailment conditions as other atomic predicates under GSA
    Metaphysical question(contrasted with causal-historical questions)
    A question about what something fundamentally *is* or what actually exists in reality—in this case, what species really are at their core.
    Ontological
    "Ontological" refers to questions about what actually exists or is real. It's concerned with the fundamental nature of being—asking "What kinds of things are there?" rather than "How do we know about them?" For example, an ontological question might be whether numbers, ideas, or God actually exist as real things, or if they're just human inventions.
    Symbolic relatedness(as used in aesthetics and art theory)
    The idea that two things can be connected through meaning or representation—like how a photograph is related to the person in it, even though they're different things.

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