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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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