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    It is not the case that The power of discerning beauty is internal (mental)

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    • 1.Hutcheson's supporting argument commits a category error: the mental origin of a perception does not entail that the object perceived is itself mental.
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    • 2.Color perception is a mental act, yet philosophers from Locke onward distinguish the mental act of perceiving red from the external disposition in objects that causes it.
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    • 3.Even granting that beauty-discernment is internal, this gives no warrant for concluding the objects of beauty are themselves mental rather than relational or dispositional.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Beauty is regularly attributed to physical properties such as symmetry, proportion, and harmony that exist independently of any perceiving mind.
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    • 2.If beauty resides in objective physical properties, the faculty discerning it need not itself be mental but could be a sensory capacity tracking real external features.
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    • 1.Objects of beauty are necessarily internal (mental)
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    • 2.Mind alone can discern what is itself mental
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