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    It is not the case that The concept of aesthetic 'truth' adds little to the notion of aesthetic correctness and can be dispensed with

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    • 1.Truth, unlike mere correctness, carries cognitive significance: it connects aesthetic judgments to the world rather than only to standards of assessment.
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    • 2.Kant's account of aesthetic judgments as making a demand on universal assent presupposes that something beyond local correctness criteria is at stake.
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    • 3.If aesthetic judgments can be true, they can stand in genuine inferential relations with non-aesthetic truths, enabling aesthetic knowledge—not just aesthetic conformity.
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    • 1.Murdoch and McDowell argue that aesthetic perception involves tracking mind-independent features of works, which correctness language alone cannot capture.
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    • 2.A judgment can be correct relative to a practice yet fail to be true if that practice is systematically distorted—truth thus provides a standard that correctness cannot supply.
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    • 1.We can already account for aesthetic normativity using the notion of correctness
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    • 2.We can express the relevant logical constraints — that something cannot be both beautiful and ugly in the same respect at the same time — without invoking the word 'true'
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