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    It is not the case that If art is defined in terms of aesthetic experience, then conceptual art cannot be considered a kind of art.

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    • 1.Aesthetic experience encompasses intellectual and perceptual responses beyond mere sensory pleasure, as Dewey argues in 'Art as Experience' (1934).
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    • 2.Conceptual art reliably produces intellectual engagement, critical reflection, and perceptual defamiliarization that constitute genuine aesthetic experience.
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    • 3.Therefore, conceptual art produces aesthetic experience under a robust, historically grounded account of that concept.
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    • 1.The institutional theory of art (Dickie, Danto) demonstrates that 'art' is correctly defined by social and institutional recognition, not aesthetic experience.
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    • 2.If the antecedent premise 'art is defined in terms of aesthetic experience' is false, the conditional claim yields no sound conclusion about conceptual art's status.
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    • 1.Conceptual art does not aim at having aesthetic value.
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    • 2.Art defined in terms of aesthetic experience must produce or aim at aesthetic value.
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