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    It is not the case that Comicality 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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    • 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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