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    It is not the case that Imagination is not always necessary for discovering beauty.

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    • 1.Kant argues in the Critique of Judgment that aesthetic judgment always involves the free play of imagination and understanding, with no exceptions.
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    • 2.If imagination is constitutive of the very faculty by which beauty is apprehended, cases of 'mere form' approbation still implicitly engage imagination.
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    • 3.Therefore, what Hume identifies as imagination-free responses are better characterized as cases where imaginative activity is rapid and unconscious, not absent.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's concept of 'seeing-as' entails that perceiving an object as beautiful is always a perceptual interpretation, not a passive reception of form.
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    • 2.Interpretive perception of the kind required for aesthetic response necessarily involves imaginative projection of meaning onto sensory data.
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    • 3.Hume's 'mere form' cases fail to distinguish between brute sensation and the aesthetically structured experience required for genuine approbation.
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    • 1.There exists a small class of cases where initial impressions of the mere form of a material object generate approbation.
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    • 2.In these cases, no imaginative association is needed to recognize beauty.
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