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    It is not the case that Hume's standard of taste shows that aesthetic responses vary systematically with the perceiver's constitution, practice, and cultural formation.

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    • 1.If taste varies only with constitution and culture, Hume cannot explain why some works survive centuries while others vanish—suggesting objective merit.
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    • 2.Systematic variation itself requires stable underlying principles; Hume's account risks collapsing into relativism where no taste judgment is better.
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    • 3.People report genuine disagreement about beauty assuming objective standards exist; reducing taste to mere constitution seems phenomenologically false.
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    • 1.Empirical evidence shows aesthetic preferences correlate strongly with upbringing, education, and cultural exposure across populations.
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    • 2.Expert judges in any art form share trained perceptual habits acquired through deliberate practice, not innate universal faculties.
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    • 3.Historical shifts in what counts as beautiful (e.g., body ideals, musical consonance) demonstrate taste is constitution-dependent, not absolute.
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