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    If the original locus of beauty is mental perfection rath... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The beauty attributed to material objects can be real even though material objects strictly speaking are never beautiful

    If the original locus of beauty is mental perfection rather than sensible form, Hutcheson's internal sense theory becomes explanatorily redundant for material perception.

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    • 1.Mental perfection (harmony, proportion, unity) is the fundamental source of beauty; sensible form merely reflects it.
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    • 2.If internal sense merely detects sensible forms, it becomes superfluous once we identify mental perfection as beauty's true origin.
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    • 3.Hutcheson's theory explains aesthetic response through subjective sentiment, but cannot ground why sensible forms trigger that response if mental perfection is primary.
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    • 1.Sensible forms and mental perfection are not competing explanations but complementary: forms embody and communicate perfection to perceivers.
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    • 2.Internal sense remains explanatorily necessary to bridge the gap between objective mental perfection and subjective aesthetic experience of material objects.
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    • 3.Material perception itself requires a faculty mediating between physical properties and mental recognition of perfection—precisely what internal sense provides.
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