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    It is not the case that Herder's initial version of narrow expressivism in the Critical Forests was both unsatisfactory and internally inconsistent.

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    • 1.Herder initially denied that non-linguistic arts can express thoughts autonomously of language by denying they can express thoughts at all.
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    • 2.Herder simultaneously endorsed the view (in the same work) that visual art often does express thoughts, as evidenced by his support for Winckelmann against Lessing.
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    • 3.Denying thought-expression to non-linguistic arts while affirming it is a direct contradiction.
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