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    Aesthetic thought cannot coherently treat beauty as a bar... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Aesthetic judgment is fundamentally different from color judgment.

    Aesthetic thought cannot coherently treat beauty as a bare property — it is essential to aesthetic thought that aesthetic properties arise from nonaesthetic properties.

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    This claim is very intuitive, but let us try to say something more in support of it. It seems to be a deep fact about beauty and other aesthetic properties that they are inherently “sociable”; beauty cannot be lonely. Something cannot be barely beautiful; if something is beautiful then it must be in virtue of its nonaesthetic properties. Furthermore, knowing this is a constraint on our judgments about beauty and other aesthetic properties. We cannot just judge that something is beautiful; we mus

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