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    Challenges→Every aesthetic ordering of the world brings with it a conception of human freedom and suggests ways to use human freedom.

    If artworks that achieve their aesthetic aims through pure form alone are genuine counterexamples, the claim that every aesthetic ordering entails a freedom-conception is falsified.

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    Aesthetic aims(as used in aesthetics (the study of beauty and art))
    The goals or purposes that a work of art is trying to achieve through how it looks, sounds, or feels to our senses.
    Aesthetic ordering(as used in aesthetics)
    The way elements in an artwork are organized or arranged to create a pleasing or meaningful effect on the viewer.
    Falsified(describing when a claim is shown to be incorrect)
    Proven to be false or wrong by finding evidence against it.
    Freedom-conception(as used in aesthetics and philosophy of art)
    A particular way of thinking about what freedom is—usually referring to the idea that aesthetic experience involves some kind of freedom or autonomy.
    Pure form(What angels are traditionally thought to be, which creates the problem Scotus addresses)

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    Something that is entirely made of essence or identity with no physical matter involved—existing as pure concept or spirit with no material component.
    counterexample([IHT] arg. 2)
    A possible obligational situation (casus possibilis positus) that verifies the antecedent and falsifies the consequent of an inference

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