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    It is not the case that Aesthetic norms requiring purely optical attention cannot be taken seriously as prescriptions.

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    • 1.Standards of aesthetic attention that no one has ever lived up to are not to be taken seriously.
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    • 2.Aesthetic prescription cannot afford to ignore empirical work on how people actually engage with art.
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    • 3.The purely optical standard of aesthetic attention Greenberg advocated is one no one has ever actually achieved.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that a norm with no possible compliance conditions is not a genuine normative rule but mere pseudo-prescription.
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    • 2.Greenberg's purely optical attention requires bracketing all semantic, historical, and contextual knowledge, a cognitive state neuroscience shows is architecturally impossible for human perceivers.
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    • 3.A prescription that structurally cannot be followed by any human agent fails Kant's 'ought implies can' principle and thus collapses as a normative claim.
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    • 1.Dewey's pragmatist aesthetics in 'Art as Experience' grounds legitimate aesthetic norms in the funded meanings and embodied habits actual perceivers bring to artworks, not in fictive pure sensation.
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    • 2.Richard Wollheim's account of 'seeing-in' demonstrates that pictorial perception is constitutively twofold, making optical isolation from representational content phenomenologically incoherent as a perceptual achievement.
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    • 3.A norm premised on a phenomenologically incoherent perceptual state lacks the ontological grip necessary to function as a genuine prescriptive standard in any art-critical practice.
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