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    It is not the case that Kant's own account in the Third Critique holds that aesthetic judgment makes a claim about the object ('this is beautiful'), not merely a report of inner sensation.

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    • 1.Kant explicitly states beauty is not a property of objects but rests on the subject's reflective judgment, undermining objective object-claims.
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    • 2.Demanding universal agreement does not logically entail making a claim about objects; it could reflect a shared cognitive structure in subjects.
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    • 3.The 'purposiveness' Kant describes is a felt harmony, not an intrinsic feature discoverable through empirical investigation of the object.
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    • 1.Kant distinguishes aesthetic judgment from mere sensation by claiming it demands universal agreement, which requires an objective claim about the object.
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    • 2.If aesthetic judgment were only subjective sensation, disagreements about beauty would be meaningless; yet we rationally debate aesthetic claims.
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    • 3.Kant's notion of 'purposiveness without purpose' attributes a formal property to the object itself, not just the subject's feeling.
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