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    Challenges→Beauty cannot be a bare property — it must be grounded in nonaesthetic properties.

    The logical independence of the judgment of taste from determinate concepts entails that beauty cannot be constitutively dependent on nonaesthetic properties.

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    • 1.If beauty depended constitutively on nonaesthetic properties, aesthetic judgments would be reducible to conceptual knowledge, making them determinate.
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    • 2.The logical independence of taste from concepts entails that no set of nonaesthetic properties logically guarantees or determines aesthetic response.
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    • 3.Objects with identical nonaesthetic properties can differ in beauty, suggesting beauty is not constitutively dependent on those properties alone.
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    • 1.Logical independence from concepts does not entail causal or constitutive independence; taste can be logically free yet grounded in nonaesthetic features.
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    • 2.Two objects differing in beauty despite shared nonaesthetic properties may reflect differences in context, perspective, or relational properties instead.
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    • 3.Beauty might supervene on nonaesthetic properties without being reducible to them, preserving both independence and constitutive dependence.
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