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    If pleasure is merely downstream of the judgment of beaut... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We take pleasure in experiencing a beautiful object.

    If pleasure is merely downstream of the judgment of beauty rather than constitutive of it, then pleasure is neither necessary nor sufficient to account for the aesthetic encounter.

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    Aesthetic encounter(as used in aesthetics)
    A moment when you experience or engage with something for its beauty or artistic qualities, like standing in front of a painting or listening to music.
    Downstream(describing what comes after or depends on cognition)
    Coming later in a chain of events or depending on something else; not the starting point.
    constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)
    Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.
    necessary condition(Counterfactual analysis of causation; Mackie 1965, 1974)
    A condition C is necessary for event E if E would not have occurred in the absence of C
    sufficient condition

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    A property whose presence guarantees membership in or applicability of a category, such that having the property entails belonging to the species or class

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