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    It is not the case that Collapsing Moritz's objective internal purposiveness with Kant's subjective reflective judgment conflates an ontological claim about artworks with an epistemological claim about aesthetic experience.

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    • 1.Both Moritz and Kant address how purposiveness appears to consciousness; the distinction between ontological and epistemological may be artificial here.
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    • 2.Moritz's 'objective internal purposiveness' is itself accessed only through aesthetic experience, making the ontology-epistemology split problematic.
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    • 3.The charge of conflation requires showing these thinkers actually made this mistake; interpretive disagreement alone doesn't prove a logical category error.
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    • 1.Moritz claims artworks possess intrinsic purposiveness independent of observer; Kant's reflective judgment is about how subjects experience purposiveness.
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    • 2.Conflating these categories commits a category error: confusing what artworks ARE (ontology) with how we know about them (epistemology).
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    • 3.Kant explicitly grounds aesthetic judgment in subjective feeling, not in objective artwork properties, marking a fundamental theoretical divide.
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