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    Challenges→Vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of the natural language of passion

    If counterexamples exist where music's defining features (harmonic structure, rhythmic complexity) are independent of passionate vocalization, the 'all music' universalization fails.

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    Defining features(as used in philosophical definitions)
    The key characteristics or qualities that make something what it is—like how 'having four legs' is a defining feature of a chair.
    Independent of(as used in logical relationships)
    Separate from and not dependent on; not needing or being influenced by something else.
    counterexample([IHT] arg. 2)
    A possible obligational situation (casus possibilis positus) that verifies the antecedent and falsifies the consequent of an inference
    universalization(Feminist critique of sexual ethics)
    The application of a single, uniform standard to all sexual practices, without regard for the diversity of women's sexual expressions

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