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    Du Bos's position that critics have no better rules for a... — Carmelics
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    Du Bos's position that critics have no better rules for arguing about art than cooks do for arguing about ragouts is mistaken

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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Judgment demonstrates that aesthetic judgments carry a universalizable 'claim' on others' assent, unlike mere reports of sensory pleasure.
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    • 2.This universalizability entails that aesthetic disputes invoke shared cognitive faculties—imagination and understanding—that admit of rational adjudication.
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    • 3.No analogous inter-subjective normative structure governs judgments about gustatory pleasure, making the cook analogy categorically disanalogous.
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    • 1.Hume's 'Of the Standard of Taste' establishes that trained critics with broad comparative experience reliably converge on aesthetic verdicts across cultures and centuries.
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    • 2.This empirical convergence among qualified judges constitutes a practical standard of taste absent from culinary preference, which shows no comparable cross-cultural expert consensus.
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    • 1.There exists an a priori ideal of agreement in taste
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    • 2.Rational means for arguing about judgments of taste exist, consisting in discussion of unity amidst variety and identification of factors leading to disagreement
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    Finally, in the appendix to the Essay Herz also argues against the position of Du Bos that critics have no better rules for arguing about the merits of works of art than cooks do for arguing about ragouts, a position adopted from Du Bos by Hume and subsequently endorsed by Kant. In spite of his recognition of the many factors that create variability in judgments of taste, Herz thus insisted to the end that we can have not just an a priori ideal of agreement in taste but rational means for arguin
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