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    It is not the case that Reid's theory of material beauty is compatible with realism about beauty

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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