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    Comicality is a general criterion for aesthetic value. — Carmelics
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    Comicality is a general criterion for aesthetic value.

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    • 1.The simple claim that a work is good because comical is intelligible in a way that 'good because yellow' or 'good because it lasts twelve minutes' are not.
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    • 2.If the simple claim that a work is good because of some property is intelligible, that property is a general criterion for aesthetic value.
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    • 1.Comicality produces aesthetic value only when formally integrated into a work's structure, not merely by its presence as an isolated property.
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    • 2.A criterion for aesthetic value must be sufficient to ground aesthetic judgment across contexts, but comicality in a tragedy diminishes rather than enhances value.
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    • 3.Therefore, comicality is at best a context-dependent merit-feature, not a general criterion, as Sibley's own framework of 'aesthetic concepts' distinguishes context-sensitive from universally applicable evaluative properties.
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    • 1.Kant's distinction between free and dependent beauty establishes that aesthetic value judgments are always relative to the concept of the kind of thing being evaluated.
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    • 2.A work intended as profound elegy is aesthetically diminished, not enhanced, by comicality, since comicality conflicts with the evaluative standard appropriate to that genre.
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    • 3.Thus comicality cannot function as a general criterion for aesthetic value but only as a genre-relative one, undermining the generality the claim requires.
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    Sibley’s generalism, as set forth in “General Reasons and Criteria in Aesthetics,” begins with the observation that the properties to which we appeal in justification of favorable verdicts are not all descriptive or value-neutral. We also appeal to properties that are inherently positive, such as grace, balance, dramatic intensity, or comicality. To say that a property is inherently positive is not to say that any work having it is so much the better, but rather that its tout court attribution i
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