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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.The open-question argument conflates epistemic gaps (what we can conceive) with metaphysical gaps (what actually differs), which commits a well-known logical fallacy.
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    • 2.Normative autonomy and supervenience are compatible: beauty could be normatively irreducible yet still supervene on base properties without additional parts.
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    • 3.Persistent disagreement about beauty's base reflects cognitive limitations and cultural variation, not metaphysical irreducibility of normative properties themselves.
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    • 1.For any physical/functional base property proposed as beauty's foundation, we can coherently ask why that base constitutes beauty rather than something else.
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    • 2.This open question persists even after complete physical description, suggesting beauty involves normative evaluation irreducible to descriptive facts alone.
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    • 3.If beauty were fully dependent on base properties, knowing all base facts should settle what counts as beautiful, but aesthetic disagreement persists despite physical agreement.
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