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    It is not the case that The association between outward beauty of the human figure and moral value must be created by the imagination.

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    • 1.Shaftesbury held that beauty, goodness, and truth form a unified metaphysical structure discoverable by reason, not constructed by imagination.
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    • 2.If the moral-aesthetic connection is grounded in the objective order of nature, then Premise 3's assumption that non-rule-governed associations require imagination is false.
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    • 3.A connection can be non-codified in explicit rules yet still be objectively real and rationally discernible without imaginative mediation.
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    • 1.Physiognomists like Lavater argued that moral character is naturally encoded in facial structure, making the beauty-virtue link perceptual, not imagined.
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    • 2.If physiognomic regularities are empirically observable patterns, then the association follows from perception and induction, not imaginative projection.
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    • 1.There is no rule that states moral value must be expressed in outward appearance.
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    • 2.There is no rule that states outward appearance can be interpreted as an expression of moral value.
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    • 3.Associations not governed by rules must be created by imagination.
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