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    Challenges→Criticizing conceptual art for failing to yield aesthetic experiences cannot undermine conceptual art on its own grounds.

    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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    'When is art' framework(as Goodman's main contribution to aesthetics)
    Goodman's approach to understanding art by asking 'when does something function as art?' rather than 'what is art?'—focusing on how objects work in context rather than their intrinsic properties.
    Aesthetic responsiveness(as a condition necessary for art to work)
    The ability to actually feel, perceive, and react to the sensory and emotional qualities of an artwork—basically, having a genuine aesthetic experience rather than just analyzing it intellectually.
    Cognitive function(as one way art communicates meaning)
    The ability of something to help us learn, understand, or gain knowledge about the world or ourselves.
    Communicative function(as used in philosophy of language)
    The purpose of language to convey information and meaning from one person to another so they understand each other.

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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

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