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    It is not the case that Kant's own account in the Third Critique allows that the free play of faculties is triggered by the object, not initiated by the subject's deliberate agency.

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    • 1.Subjects demonstrably exercise deliberate agency in attending to, selecting, and sustaining contemplation of objects for aesthetic purposes.
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    • 2.'Triggered by' does not entail 'not involving deliberate agency'—subjects can both respond to objects and actively engage their faculties.
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    • 3.Kant's account requires reflective judgment, which involves active mental operations by the subject, not mere passive triggering.
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    • 1.Kant explicitly describes aesthetic judgment as triggered by encountering beautiful objects, not by antecedent cognitive intentions.
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    • 2.The free play of imagination and understanding must be receptively activated by sensory material, since faculties require content to exercise.
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    • 3.If subjects deliberately initiated free play, aesthetic experience would collapse into purposive cognition, contradicting Kant's autonomy claim.
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