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    It is not the case that Pure judgments of taste can guarantee unanimity across individuals

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no formal principle determines its own application uniformly across different subjects.
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    • 2.Even if pure formal properties exist, individuals must still apply aesthetic concepts to them, and this application is irreducibly shaped by training, culture, and form of life.
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    • 3.Unanimity in applying a formal standard therefore cannot be guaranteed by the standard's formality alone.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The distinction between form and matter in aesthetic perception cannot be cleanly maintained, as Herder argued that sensory content is inseparable from formal structure.
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    • 2.If form and matter are phenomenologically entangled, judgments ostensibly about form always smuggle in variable material responses, undermining the universality claim.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Individuals differ in their response to matter but not to form
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    • 2.Pure judgments of taste are restricted to form alone
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    • 3.What is grounded solely in form admits no individual variation
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