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    It is not the case that General conclusions in aesthetics should be reached only from close examination of examples of art and of our responses to them.

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    • 1.Kant argues that aesthetic judgments claim universal assent yet cannot be grounded in empirical examples, which are always particular and contingent.
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    • 2.Inductive examination of artworks cannot yield the a priori principles that ground the normativity aesthetics requires.
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    • 1.Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics demonstrate that the philosophy of art requires a prior conceptual framework—the dialectic of Spirit—to determine which examples are even aesthetically relevant.
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    • 2.Without theoretical criteria, the selection of 'close examples' is arbitrary and cannot generate genuinely general conclusions.
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    • 1.Herder's own method derives general conclusions from particular examples rather than from prior definitions.
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    • 2.Herder's most important aesthetic claims are grounded in detailed engagement with specific works, such as those of Ossian and Shakespeare.
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