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    It is not the case that If beauty-experience were purely self-directed awareness of one's representational state, it could not carry the demand for universal assent that Kant identifies as constitutive of genuine taste judgments.

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    • 1.Social creatures naturally seek consensus on valued experiences; universality demands may reflect evolved preference-coordination, not metaphysical requirements.
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    • 2.We can coherently demand assent to subjective states (e.g., "you should find this funny") without positing non-subjective grounds for those states.
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    • 3.Kant's universality claim might be a normative ideal we project onto taste rather than a logical entailment of what beauty-experience actually is.
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    • 1.Kant's universality claim requires that taste judgments transcend purely subjective sensation, pointing to something intersubjectively valid.
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    • 2.If beauty-experience were merely introspective awareness of one's mental state, it would lack the normative force to demand others agree.
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    • 3.The demand for assent presupposes that beauty-judgments track objective features, not just idiosyncratic phenomenal states.
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