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    Challenges→A performance that departs from the prescribed notes may still count as a rendering of the original work by virtue of symbolic reference to and exemplification of that work, even while being ontologically an instance of a distinct work.

    Exemplification, as Goodman defines it, requires that the exemplifying sample actually possesses the property it refers back to, so a performance cannot exemplify a score-defined work it fails to instantiate.

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    • 1.Exemplification requires actual possession of properties; a sample cannot refer back to what it lacks without being misleading or false.
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    • 2.Score-defined works have precise, constitutive requirements; performances failing these requirements instantiate different works or none at all.
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    • 3.Allowing non-instantiating performances to exemplify scores collapses the distinction between a work and its failed approximations.
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    • 1.Exemplification may require only sufficient resemblance or intentional reference, not perfect instantiation of every score requirement.
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    • 2.Performances can exemplify aspects of a work (its general character, style, intent) even if they fail minor technical specifications.
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    • 3.Goodman's strict exemplification model may not fit musical works, where pragmatic convention allows imperfect instantiation to exemplify.
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    Key Terms

    Goodman(the statement opens with his name)
    Nelson Goodman was a 20th-century philosopher who created a famous puzzle about how we learn from experience and make predictions based on patterns we've observed.
    Score-defined work(what a musical performance is being compared to)
    A piece of music or performance art that is defined by a written score (sheet music or instructions) rather than being a single fixed object—the score is the blueprint for what the work is.
    exemplification(Lowe's four-category ontology)
    The relation by which an object possesses an attribute, either occurrently (via an instantiated mode) or dispositionally (via the kind the object instantiates).
    instantiate(as used in metaphysics)
    To be a concrete example of something, or to have and display a particular property or category.

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