Nelson Goodman's 'when is art' framework and Frank Sibley's work on aesthetic properties establish that aesthetic responsiveness is a condition of art's cognitive and communicative function, not merely a bonus feature.
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Frank Sibley(as a philosopher who studied aesthetic properties)
A British philosopher who studied how we experience and recognize aesthetic qualities (like elegance, gracefulness, or harmony) in artworks through our senses and feelings.
Nelson Goodman(the philosopher whose theory is being discussed)
A 20th-century American philosopher who developed theories about how symbols (like words, pictures, and artworks) work and mean things.
aesthetic properties(Philosophy of aesthetics; the nature and bearers of aesthetic properties)
Properties that depend on the appearances of things, such as how things look or sound, though contested accounts extend these to abstract objects and concepts