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    It is not the case that Exposure to nature can transform a person's preferences, tastes, and values

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    • 1.Preference transformation requires a subject already disposed toward revaluation; nature exposure cannot instill what the character lacks.
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    • 2.Aristotelian habituation theory holds that stable values arise from repeated practice within social institutions, not from passive sensory exposure.
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    • 3.A solitary encounter with wilderness bypasses the communal reinforcement that Aristotle identifies as necessary for genuine virtue formation.
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    • 1.The music analogy fails because musical appreciation is culturally mediated through shared frameworks of meaning that nature, as non-symbolic, cannot provide.
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    • 2.Kant's aesthetic theory distinguishes free beauty from dependent beauty, implying nature's appeal is formal and affective, not normatively action-guiding.
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    • 3.An affective response to nature's sublimity does not entail durable preference revision, as Humean psychology separates momentary impressions from settled dispositions.
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    • 1.Someone exposed for the first time to a new musical genre may undergo a transformation in musical preferences, tastes, and values
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    • 2.Nature exposure functions analogously to exposure to a new musical genre in its capacity to transform values
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    • 3.Such transformations can affect other preferences and desires in both direct and indirect ways
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