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    Reid's theory of material beauty is compatible with reali... — Carmelics
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    Reid's theory of material beauty is compatible with realism about beauty

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    • 1.Realism about beauty requires only that beauty attributions to material objects track something real
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    • 2.The beauty attributed to material objects tracks real mental beauty in the minds those objects signify
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    • 3.Therefore beauty attributions to material objects are grounded in something real
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    • 1.Realism about beauty requires that beauty inhere in or supervene on the intrinsic properties of the object itself, not in a separate mental entity the object signifies.
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    • 2.Reid's material beauty is a sign whose aesthetic value is entirely derived from the mental beauty it represents, making the material object a mere vehicle with no intrinsic aesthetic properties.
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    • 3.A theory that locates aesthetic value wholly outside the object deemed beautiful cannot constitute realism about that object's beauty.
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    • 1.The supporting argument's P1 sets a criterion so weak—merely 'tracking something real'—that it would render even Humean response-dependent subjectivism a form of realism.
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    • 2.A criterion for realism that fails to exclude paradigm cases of anti-realism collapses the realism/anti-realism distinction and is therefore philosophically vacuous.
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    It may be objected that such a reduction of material to mental beauty cannot serve Reid’s case for realism, at least as it applies to material objects. For it may seem that the beauty we attribute to material objects can never be real, by Reid’s lights, given that no material object ever can have any of the mental perfections capable of grounding beauty. But such an objection misses a subtlety of Reid’s position. Strictly speaking, material objects never are beautiful. But this does not imply th
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