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    It is not the case that The beautiful object is complete in itself, not in the perceiving subject.

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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Judgment demonstrates that aesthetic judgment is grounded in the free play of the subject's cognitive faculties, not object-properties.
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    • 2.The universality claimed for beauty arises from shared subjective conditions of cognition, not from mind-independent features of objects.
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    • 3.If beauty resided in the object, aesthetic disagreement would be resolvable by empirical inspection, yet it demonstrably is not.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hume's standard of taste shows that aesthetic responses vary systematically with the perceiver's constitution, practice, and cultural formation.
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    • 2.An object cannot be 'complete in itself' aesthetically when its perceived unity depends on the organizing activity of a sentient, culturally situated mind.
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    • 1.In contemplating the beautiful, the perceiver rolls the end (purpose or completion) back from themselves into the object.
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    • 2.The object is considered as comprising a whole in itself.
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    • 3.The object affords pleasure on its own account, independent of the subject's contribution.
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