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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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