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    It is not the case that Sibley's account of aesthetic concepts shows that certain perceptual features reliably (if defeasibly) license aesthetic attributions across contexts.

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    • 1.Historical shifts in aesthetic values (e.g., medieval to modern beauty standards) undermine claims that perceptual features reliably license judgments.
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    • 2.Sibley's framework struggles to explain why identical perceptual features generate opposite aesthetic attributions across persons or periods.
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    • 1.Graceful movements, delicate colors, and balanced proportions consistently evoke aesthetic responses across diverse cultural and individual contexts.
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    • 2.Sibley's account explains why aesthetic judgments aren't purely subjective yet remain distinct from technical or physical properties.
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    • 3.The defeasibility clause preserves genuine aesthetic disagreement while acknowledging perceptual features ground attributions non-arbitrarily.
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