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    Challenges→Everyday objects and activities can acquire aesthetic merit when approached with a different attitude, perceptual gear, or when given a cohesive internal structure.

    Dickie's critique of the aesthetic attitude shows that positing a special 'aesthetic gear' is explanatorily vacuous, not a genuine mechanism of value-creation.

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    • 1.Invoking 'aesthetic attitude' merely relabels the phenomenon without explaining what psychological mechanism produces aesthetic experience.
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    • 2.If aesthetic value depends on adopting a special attitude, then identical objects should have identical value regardless of context—but they don't.
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    • 3.Institutional theory better explains aesthetic status by pointing to actual social practices, rather than positing internal mental states.
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    • 1.Some psychological capacities are genuinely distinct (e.g., attending to form vs. function) and 'attitude' usefully names this difference.
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    • 2.Dickie's own institutional account requires gatekeepers to recognize objects as art—a hidden appeal to something like aesthetic discernment.
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    • 3.Even if 'aesthetic attitude' is vague, it captures real differences in how we engage with objects; vagueness needn't mean explanatory vacuity.
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