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    Challenges→The power of discerning beauty is internal (mental)

    Hutcheson's supporting argument commits a category error: the mental origin of a perception does not entail that the object perceived is itself mental.

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    • 1.The origin of a representation in the mind does not determine the ontological status of what is represented.
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    • 2.We mentally perceive physical objects, yet this does not make those objects mental entities.
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    • 3.Confusing the causal origin of an idea with the nature of its referent is a well-documented logical fallacy.
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    • 1.Hutcheson may argue that beauty's dependence on perceiver response suggests it lacks independent reality.
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    • 2.If beauty only exists in the relation between mind and object, treating it as mental may be ontologically correct.
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    • 3.The category error charge assumes beauty is object-like, but it might be a relational or dispositional property instead.
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