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    Challenges→Conceptual art reliably produces intellectual engagement, critical reflection, and perceptual defamiliarization that constitute genuine aesthetic experience.

    Intellectual engagement and perceptual defamiliarization occur with non-aesthetic objects (scientific puzzles, marketing campaigns), so they don't reliably constitute aesthetic experience specifically.

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    Constitute(metaphysics)
    To be the parts or components that make up something—like how ingredients constitute a cake.
    Intellectual engagement(describing types of mental activity)
    When your mind is actively thinking hard about something, working through puzzles or problems that make you concentrate.
    Non-aesthetic objects(contrasting with things made for artistic appreciation)
    Things that exist mainly to solve a problem or serve a practical purpose, rather than to be appreciated as beautiful or artistic.
    Perceptual defamiliarization(describing how we experience things)
    When something looks or feels strange and unfamiliar to you, making you see it in a new way instead of taking it for granted.
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    Explore a random proposition
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    (as used in epistemology)
    In a consistent and dependable way that you can count on to work correctly most of the time.
    aesthetic experience(Sulzer's aesthetics)
    A variety of free and unhindered activity of the representational capacity that produces pleasurable sentiments.

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