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    It is not the case that Defining art solely in terms of aesthetic experience is problematic.

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    • 1.Natural objects and persons can invite aesthetic experiences without qualifying as art.
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    • 2.A definition of art that includes natural objects and persons as art leads to counterintuitive results.
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    • 1.Duchamp's readymades, like 'Fountain' (1917), possess identical aesthetic properties to their non-art counterparts yet differ in arthood.
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    • 2.If aesthetic experience were definitionally sufficient for art, 'Fountain' and an identical urinal in a hardware store would be indistinguishable as art.
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    • 3.Any definition that cannot account for this distinction fails to capture what makes something art rather than a mere aesthetic object.
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    • 1.Dickie's Institutional Theory holds that arthood is conferred by social roles within the artworld, not by perceptual or experiential properties.
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    • 2.Aesthetic experience supervenes on perceptual properties, which are identical in indiscernible pairs like Warhol's Brillo Box and its warehouse counterpart.
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    • 3.Danto's argument from 'indiscernibles' demonstrates that no purely experiential account can differentiate art from non-art without invoking institutional or historical context.
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