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    Challenges→Beauty cannot be a bare property — it must be grounded in nonaesthetic properties.

    If beauty were necessarily grounded in nonaesthetic properties, one could always coherently ask 'but is it beautiful?' of any nonaesthetic description, showing the entailment fails.

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    Coherently(as describing how these functions work together)
    In a way that is logically consistent and doesn't contradict itself.
    Necessarily
    "Necessarily" means something must be true in all possible situations—it's not just true right now, but couldn't be false under any circumstances. For example, "2+2=4 necessarily" means there's no possible way 2+2 could equal anything other than 4. This contrasts with "contingently" true facts, like "it's raining today," which happen to be true but could have been false.
    entailment(Conceptualist framework)
    Understood in terms of truth at a world
    grounded in(whether distinctness or identity is explained by intrinsic features)
    To be explained by or to have its reason or basis in something else—like how a tree being wet is grounded in (explained by) recent rain.
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    (The grounding base for aesthetic properties like beauty.)
    Properties of an object that are not themselves aesthetic — such as physical, structural, or formal properties — in virtue of which aesthetic properties are instantiated.

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