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    Supports→Resemblance alone is not the source of pleasure in aesthetic imitation, because resemblance can be produced by means far simpler than the full range of artistic faculties

    Because resemblance is a symmetric and ubiquitous relation while aesthetic appreciation is selective and asymmetric, resemblance cannot be the operative source of distinctively aesthetic pleasure.

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    Aesthetic appreciation(as used in discussions of what education should teach)
    The ability to recognize and enjoy beauty in art, nature, and other things—understanding why something is beautiful or moving.
    Distinctively aesthetic pleasure(the type of pleasure the statement discusses)
    A special kind of enjoyment that comes specifically from appreciating beauty or art, not from other kinds of satisfaction like eating food or winning a game.
    Operative source(what the statement is arguing resemblance is NOT)
    The actual cause or origin that makes something happen or work—the real engine behind an effect.
    Ubiquitous(describing how resemblance appears throughout experience)
    Present or found everywhere; extremely common and widespread.
    asymmetric relation

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    (a special case of non-symmetric relations)
    A binary relation R is asymmetric iff whenever x bears R to y, y does not bear R to x.
    symmetric relation(classification of binary relations)
    A binary relation R is symmetric iff whenever x bears R to y, y bears R to x.

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