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    It is not the case that Physical objects participate in and point towards incorporeal Beauty

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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