The persistent open-question about any candidate nonaesthetic base demonstrates that beauty retains irreducible normative autonomy not capturable by supervenience or dependence relations.

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Dependence relations(as what remains even without intrinsic existence): The connections between things where one thing only exists or makes sense because of its relationship to other things.
Nonaesthetic base(in aesthetics): The underlying physical or factual features of something (like colors, shapes, or chemical composition) that aren't directly about beauty or artistic value.
Normative autonomy(in aesthetics and ethics): The independence to set its own standards or rules that tell us what *should* be the case, rather than just describing what *is* the case.
irreducible(Personalist anthropology; distinguishes personhood from mere biological individuality): That which is unique and unrepeatable in each human being, by virtue of which a person is not merely an individual of a species but a personal subject.
open question(The open question 'Ought I to do what will have the best results?' shows that 'best consequences' and 'ought' are not analytically equivalent): A question that remains genuinely askable and non-trivial for a competent speaker, indicating that the concepts involved are not synonymous
supervenience(Philosophy of mind and reduction; contrasted with full reduction): A relation in which mental (or higher-level) states are dependent on physiological (or lower-level) states such that any two cases with identical lower-level bases are identical in their higher-level states; a necessary but not sufficient condition for reduction.

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