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    It is not the case that General principles of beautiful form are objective but not completely determinate, thus allowing for differences of taste even though beauty is objective

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    • 1.If beauty principles are genuinely objective, then disagreements in taste indicate perceptual or cognitive failure, not permissible variation.
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    • 2.A principle that licenses contradictory verdicts about the same object cannot be doing genuine normative work as an objective standard.
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    • 3.Baumgarten's own perfectionist framework requires that beauty tracks determinate perfection, making 'objective but indeterminate' internally unstable.
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    • 1.Hume's standard of taste shows that intersubjective convergence among ideal critics is sufficient to ground aesthetic normativity without invoking objective form.
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    • 2.Positing indeterminate objective principles is an ad hoc maneuver that preserves the word 'objective' while conceding the explanatory work to subjective variation.
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    • 3.If material realization consistently introduces divergent responses, then form alone is insufficient to constitute beauty, undermining the claim's objectivist premise.
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    • 1.Form must always be realized in matter
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    • 2.Individuals differ more in their response to matter than to form
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    • 3.Because matter varies in its reception across individuals, the realization of form introduces indeterminacy
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