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    Physical objects participate in and point towards incorporeal Beauty

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    • 1.Beauty is mirrored throughout the universe
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    • 2.Physical objects such as musical notes and melodies are instances of Beauty's universal presence
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    • 1.The inference from 'physical particulars share a property' to 'an incorporeal universal of that property exists' commits the One Over Many fallacy without additional justification.
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    • 2.Aristotle's immanent realism demonstrates that shared properties like beauty can inhere fully in particulars without requiring transcendent Forms (Metaphysics, Book VII).
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    • 3.Musical harmony being instantiated in melodies is fully explicable through material ratios and proportions, as the Pythagorean-Aristotelian tradition shows, requiring no incorporeal referent.
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    • 1.Beauty is a response-dependent property constituted by observer psychology, not an mind-independent incorporeal Form (Hume, 'Of the Standard of Taste', 1757).
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    • 2.If beauty exists only relative to perceivers, physical objects cannot 'point toward' an objective Beauty that has no independent existence.
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    In the thought of Judah Abrabanel, the concepts of beauty (bellezza) and love (amore) become technical terms through which he examines virtually every traditional philosophical issue. Frequently, however, his discussion of one of these terms is predicated on the existence of the other; as a result, beauty and love are inseparable in the Dialoghi, undoubtedly mirroring Judah’s understanding of the way in which these two principles operate in the universe. The intimate relationship between these t
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