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    It is not the case that The attitude theorist is not committed to thinking that the impresario is attending to the performance

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    • 1.Attitude theories (Bullough, Stolnitz) define aesthetic experience by the subject's mode of attention, not merely their physical presence.
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    • 2.If attitude theory cannot distinguish the impresario's stance from genuine aesthetic attendance, it lacks the discriminatory power its proponents claim.
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    • 3.A theory that is not committed to identifying who is attending fails to explain what aesthetic attitude actually selects or excludes.
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    • 1.Dickie's institutional critique of attitude theory argues that 'aesthetic attitude' is an empty honorific applied post-hoc to ordinary attention.
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    • 2.If the attitude theorist need not specify whether the impresario attends, the concept of aesthetic attitude becomes unfalsifiable and explanatorily vacuous.
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    • 1.The impresario is clearly not attending to the performance
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    • 2.The attitude theorist's position does not require claiming that all spectators present are attending to the performance
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