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    It is not the case that The display of an object in a fine arts museum does not constitute strong or definitive evidence that the object is a work of art.

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    • 1.Institutional display in a fine arts museum constitutes a performative act of classification that confers arthood, per Dickie's institutional theory.
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    • 2.If arthood is bestowed by the artworld's representative institutions, museum display is not merely evidence but a constitutive condition of art status.
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    • 3.Therefore, museum display does not merely suggest arthood but partially creates it, making the claim's 'not definitive' conclusion conceptually confused.
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    • 1.The supporting arguments commit a fallacy of imperfect duty: that a museum sometimes displays non-art does not undermine the strong presumptive weight of its classificatory practices.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's notion of family resemblance and Danto's artworld framework both imply that institutional context is among the strongest available criteria for art classification.
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    • 3.Exceptions like artist palettes are edge cases that confirm rather than defeat the rule, since they derive display-worthiness parasitically from their art-adjacent status.
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    • 1.Fine arts museums display objects for reasons other than their status as art, such as historical context or aesthetic interest.
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    • 2.Fine arts museums display working clothes and palettes of artists, which are not works of art.
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    • 3.Even if a museum's primary business is displaying art, it has other functions and justifiably extends its mission in various ways.
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