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    It is not the case that Everyday objects and activities can acquire aesthetic merit when approached with a different attitude, perceptual gear, or when given a cohesive internal structure.

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    • 1.Aesthetic experience requires a distinctive kind of object-directed attention that everyday absorption in function systematically forecloses.
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    • 2.Mere attitudinal shift does not alter the intrinsic properties of an object, and aesthetic merit supervenes on intrinsic properties, not on viewer orientation.
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    • 3.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.Dewey's pragmatist 'consummatory experience' requires genuine rupture from habitual flow, making truly routine activities structurally ineligible for aesthetic status.
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    • 2.Imposing cohesive structure on ordinary experience from without is an aesthetic falsification, not discovery of latent merit already present in the activity.
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    • 1.Latent aesthetic values exist in the most ordinary and routine objects and activities.
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    • 2.A change in attitude or perceptual orientation can unearth those latent aesthetic values.
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    • 3.A cohesive internal structure fulfilling structural requirements transforms humdrum experience into genuine aesthetic experience.
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