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    The power of discerning beauty cannot be identified with ... — Carmelics
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    The power of discerning beauty cannot be identified with any of the five external senses

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    • 1.A person could have all five external senses in perfect working order and yet be insensible to beauty
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    • 2.If the discernment of beauty were identical to an external sense, then having that sense fully functional would suffice for discerning beauty
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    • 1.Beauty perception is constitutively dependent on visual and auditory processing, not merely causally triggered by it.
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    • 2.Deficits in color discrimination or tonal sensitivity systematically alter aesthetic judgments, suggesting beauty is not separable from sensory content.
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    • 3.If two processes cannot be dissociated without remainder, identifying them is more parsimonious than positing a distinct sixth faculty.
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    • 1.Hume's account in 'Of the Standard of Taste' grounds aesthetic discernment in the refinement of ordinary sensory organs through practice, not a separate inner sense.
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    • 2.The argument from possible insensibility proves too much, since a person can have functioning eyes yet fail to perceive depth, without this entailing that depth perception is a non-visual faculty.
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    Hutcheson begins his argument for the internality of the power of discerning beauty by observing that the five external senses are insufficient for that discernment—one could have all five in perfect working order and yet be insensible to beauty (Hutcheson 1726 [2004, 23]). This observation, however, does not seem to show the discernment of beauty to be internal. It seems to show merely that such discernment cannot be identified with any known external power. But Hutcheson continues:
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