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It is not the case that Dickie's definition has withstood decades of critical scrutiny without being shown to be logically incoherent or empirically false.
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Absence of logical incoherence doesn't establish truth; many unfalsifiable theories avoid refutation by being too vague to test.
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The institutional theory struggles with edge cases like outsider art, historical non-Western artifacts, and radical anti-art movements.
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Longevity in academic discourse reflects institutional entrenchment and citation patterns, not necessarily descriptive or normative adequacy.
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Dickie's institutional theory has generated productive scholarship and refinements rather than outright rejection by major aestheticians.
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No competing definition has achieved broader consensus or successfully addressed all counterexamples that Dickie's theory handles.
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Survival through decades of scrutiny suggests a theory captures something importantly true about how art functions in modern contexts.
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