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    It is not the case that Appreciation of artistry is a fourth independent source of perfection and pleasure in aesthetic experience

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    • 1.Kant argues in the Critique of Judgment that awareness of artistic technique corrupts pure aesthetic judgment by introducing interested, conceptual cognition.
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    • 2.If appreciation of artistry requires knowing an object is made and how, it depends on extra-aesthetic knowledge rather than arising from perception alone.
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    • 3.Therefore artistry-pleasure is not an independent aesthetic source but a heteronomous pleasure derived from intellectual recognition of craft.
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    • 1.Baumgarten's own framework grounds perfection in unity-in-variety of sensory qualities, not in the productive acts of agents that caused those qualities.
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    • 2.The pleasure attributed to artistry appreciation is fully reducible to pleasure in the formal perfection of the resulting object, making artistry causally explanatory but not independently constitutive.
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    • 1.Beautiful objects manifest artistry in their production
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    • 2.The appreciation of that artistry generates pleasure in the observer
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    • 3.This pleasure is distinct from pleasure derived from resemblance or other previously identified sources
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