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    It is not the case that The pre-rational concept of Beauty must be sought along the path of abstraction.

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's family resemblance theory shows concepts like Beauty are formed through overlapping similarities among particulars, not abstraction from them.
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    • 2.If Beauty-judgments are corrected by a pre-rational concept, this concept must originate somewhere—empirical encounter with beautiful particulars is the only coherent origin.
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    • 1.Aristotle's inductive epistemology in Posterior Analytics II.19 holds that universal concepts arise from repeated perceptual experience, not prior to it.
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    • 2.Kant himself grants in the Third Critique that aesthetic judgment begins with singular encounters ('this rose is beautiful'), undermining any pre-experiential abstraction as its source.
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    • 1.The pre-rational concept of Beauty cannot be drawn from any actual case.
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    • 2.The pre-rational concept of Beauty itself corrects and guides our judgement concerning every actual case.
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