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    Imaginative association is the typical means by which bea... — Carmelics
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    Imaginative association is the typical means by which beauty is recognized, even if not strictly necessary in all cases.

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    • 1.Cases where pleasing form alone suffices for approbation are a very small class.
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    • 2.Hume notes that observers seldom rest with mere form-based approbation.
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    • 1.Kant's analysis of pure aesthetic judgment requires disinterested approbation free from conceptual association or empirical interest.
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    • 2.If pure beauty judgments are genuinely possible without association, association cannot be the *typical* means of recognition—only a frequent one.
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    • 3.Hume conflates the psychological frequency of association with its aesthetic necessity, undermining the normative force of beauty claims.
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    • 1.Clive Bell's formalist thesis holds that 'significant form' alone—not associative content—constitutes the proper object of aesthetic response.
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    • 2.Bell's account is supported by cases where representational content actively diminishes aesthetic response when it triggers non-formal associations.
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    • 3.If formalist approbation is not a marginal exception but a paradigm case, Hume's claim that association is *typical* inverts the proper aesthetic hierarchy.
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    Hume recognizes a very small class of cases for which imaginative association is not needed to recognize beauty. In these cases, initial impressions of the mere “form” of a material object generate approbation (T, 364). Such cases are more typical of natural beauty than art (EPM, 173). So imagination is not always necessary for discovering beauty. Pleasing form is sometimes sufficient. However, “’tis seldom we rest there” (T, 363).
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