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    It is not the case that Dance is ill-suited for analysis under a Platonic ontology of art

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    • 1.Platonism need not restrict itself to discovery; Kivy and Dodd argue abstract structures can be created by 'bringing them into salience' without ontological contradiction.
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    • 2.If dance action-structures are repeatable, type-distinct, and norm-governed across performances, they exhibit the hallmarks of abstract objects regardless of intentional origin.
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    • 3.The created/discovered dichotomy conflates epistemic access with ontological status, leaving room for a Platonism about created abstracta as defended by Levinson and Thomasson.
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    • 1.Wollheim's and Davies's work shows that embodiment and physical instantiation are compatible with type-token Platonism, since the type remains distinct from any particular performance token.
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    • 2.The fact that dance is an action-structure does not entail that the structure itself is non-abstract; musical works are also action-structures yet Dodd mounts a sustained Platonist defense of them.
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    • 1.Platonic ontology holds that the structure of a work of art is discovered rather than created
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    • 2.Dance is embodied in a physical, intentional event, making dance an action-structure
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    • 3.Action-structures are created, not discovered
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