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    It is not the case that The Mona Lisa, as a kind, can be said to have perceptual properties in an extended sense

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    • 1.Kinds, as abstract or general entities, lack the spatiotemporal particularity required to be genuine bearers of perceptual properties.
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    • 2.Attributing perceptual properties to a kind conflates the ontological category of type with that of token, committing a category error Strawson warned against in 'Individuals'.
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    • 1.The inference from 'all instances share property P' to 'the kind has P' is invalid, as Russell's paradox of classes shows that collections need not instantiate member properties.
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    • 2.Wollheim's account in 'Art and Its Objects' establishes that perceptual properties belong exclusively to particular instances, not to the type, making 'extended' attribution explanatorily idle rather than genuinely descriptive.
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    • 1.All instances of the kind (the Mona Lisa) have perceptual properties
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    • 2.When all instances of a kind share perceptual properties, it is a small conceptual courtesy to attribute those perceptual properties to the kind itself
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