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    Dances are better construed as action-structures than as ... — Carmelics
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    Dances are better construed as action-structures than as eternal types

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    • 1.Dance is embodied in a physical, intentional event
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    • 2.Embodiment in a physical, intentional event makes action-structures a more appropriate ontological category than eternal types
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    • 1.A dance work like Swan Lake maintains strict identity conditions across centuries and radically different performances, implying type-hood.
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    • 2.Wolterstorff's theory of works as norm-kinds shows that types can be historically instituted without being Platonic eternal abstracta.
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    • 3.If types can be culturally embedded and historically situated, the action-structure account loses its ontological advantage over type theory.
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    • 1.Goodman's allographic/autographic distinction implies dance notation systems could in principle generate multiple correct instances, supporting type ontology.
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    • 2.If any performance compliant with a score counts as a genuine instance of the work, identity is constituted by compliance not by action-token embodiment.
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    Anna Pakes’ view of dance as action is in line with that of Beardsley and Van Camp, against Khatchadourian and Langer. She (2013) agrees that action is a necessary feature of dance. Both Aaron Meskin (1999) and Pakes suggest that it is the embodiment of dance in a physical, intentional event that makes dances better construed as action-structures than as eternal types. It is for this reason (among others) that they find dance to be ill-suited for analysis under a Platonic ontology of art in whic
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