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    It is not the case that Hutcheson cannot infer that mind alone is beautiful from the premise that things are beautiful owing to the effect of mind

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    • 1.Hutcheson does not hold that objects of beauty are necessarily internal
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    • 2.The inference from 'beauty is caused by mind' to 'only mind is beautiful' requires the additional premise that objects of beauty are necessarily internal
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    • 1.Hume's distinction between cause and object of a mental state shows that what produces beauty need not itself possess beauty.
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    • 2.Hutcheson's own empiricist framework treats beauty as a relational property between perceiver and object, not a property of the perceiving mind itself.
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    • 3.Conflating the causal origin of a perception with the intentional object of that perception commits the genetic fallacy in aesthetics.
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    • 1.In Hutcheson's idealist-adjacent framework, the 'internal sense' is the faculty that registers beauty, not the locus where beauty resides.
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    • 2.Locke's primary/secondary quality distinction, which Hutcheson adapts, implies that a quality's mind-dependence does not make the mind itself the bearer of that quality.
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