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    It is not the case that An act of running can, under the right circumstances, count as dance

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    • 1.Dance is constituted not merely by expressive bodily movement but by movement organized within a practice defined by aesthetic conventions and intentional framing.
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    • 2.Running, even when expressive, lacks the intentional uptake within such a practice unless explicitly re-contextualized by institutional or choreographic framing.
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    • 3.Sortal generation from action theory (Goldman) requires a higher-order generating condition that is practice-internal, not merely circumstantial expressiveness.
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    • 1.Goodman's account of art requires that a work be governed by a symbol system with repleteness and syntactic density; running qua running operates in a different symbol system than dance.
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    • 2.Admitting that any action can become dance under 'right circumstances' collapses the distinction between dance and theatre, sport, or ritual without principled criteria for demarcation.
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    • 1.One bodily action can, under the right circumstances, be sortally generated into another kind of action (from action theory)
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    • 2.Running is a bodily action
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    • 3.Dance requires expressive action, and running can be expressive under the right circumstances
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