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    It is not the case that The power of discerning beauty cannot be identified with any of the five external senses

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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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    • 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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