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    Dickie's definition has withstood decades of critical scr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Art cannot be defined by necessary and sufficient conditions

    Dickie's definition has withstood decades of critical scrutiny without being shown to be logically incoherent or empirically false.

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    • 1.Dickie's institutional theory has generated productive scholarship and refinements rather than outright rejection by major aestheticians.
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    • 2.No competing definition has achieved broader consensus or successfully addressed all counterexamples that Dickie's theory handles.
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    • 3.Survival through decades of scrutiny suggests a theory captures something importantly true about how art functions in modern contexts.
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    • 1.Absence of logical incoherence doesn't establish truth; many unfalsifiable theories avoid refutation by being too vague to test.
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    • 2.The institutional theory struggles with edge cases like outsider art, historical non-Western artifacts, and radical anti-art movements.
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    • 3.Longevity in academic discourse reflects institutional entrenchment and citation patterns, not necessarily descriptive or normative adequacy.
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