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    It is not the case that Herder's critique of Lessing establishes that medium-specific constraints sufficiently explain sculptural choices without appealing to moral psychology.

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    • 1.Artists actively choose which material constraints to accept or circumvent, suggesting deliberative intention precedes medium selection.
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    • 2.Multiple sculptors face identical material constraints yet produce radically different works, implying psychology determines outcomes beyond physics.
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    • 3.Herder's argument conflates physical possibility with actual choice; that marble *allows* restraint doesn't explain why artists *chose* it.
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    • 1.Sculptural materials (stone, marble, bronze) impose genuine physical constraints on representational possibilities independent of artist intent.
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    • 2.Herder demonstrated that formal properties like surface texture and three-dimensionality sufficiently account for stylistic choices Lessing attributed to ethics.
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    • 3.Explaining artistic choices through medium properties is more parsimonious than invoking unobservable psychological states.
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