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    Challenges→Criticizing conceptual art for failing to yield aesthetic experiences cannot undermine conceptual art on its own grounds.

    If aesthetic properties are the medium through which conceptual content is perceived and interpreted, then conceptual art's rejection of aesthetic experience undermines its own vehicular communicative project from within.

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    Medium(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)
    The material or substance through which something happens or exists—like paper is the medium you write on, or air is the medium sound travels through.
    Vehicular communicative project(as used in philosophy of art and communication)
    The goal of using something as a vehicle (or tool) to send a message or meaning from the artist to the viewer.
    aesthetic experience(Sulzer's aesthetics)
    A variety of free and unhindered activity of the representational capacity that produces pleasurable sentiments.
    aesthetic properties(Philosophy of aesthetics; the nature and bearers of aesthetic properties)
    Properties that depend on the appearances of things, such as how things look or sound, though contested accounts extend these to abstract objects and concepts

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    conceptual art(Distinguished from art traditions where aesthetic pleasure is the primary aim.)
    An artistic tradition concerned with conveying meaning through a vehicular medium rather than furnishing audiences with aesthetic experiences such as beauty.
    conceptual content(Contrasted with perceptual content which allegedly can be contradictory)
    Content of the kind found in propositional attitudes such as belief, which is argued to necessarily be consistent (non-contradictory)

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