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    Supports→Beauty cannot be a bare property — it must be grounded in nonaesthetic properties.

    Recognizing that aesthetic properties arise from nonaesthetic properties is constitutive of aesthetic thought itself.

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    This claim is very intuitive, but let us try to say something more in support of it. It seems to be a deep fact about beauty and other aesthetic properties that they are inherently “sociable”; beauty cannot be lonely. Something cannot be barely beautiful; if something is beautiful then it must be in virtue of its nonaesthetic properties. Furthermore, knowing this is a constraint on our judgments about beauty and other aesthetic properties. We cannot just judge that something is beautiful; we mus

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