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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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