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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(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.