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    The presence of a particular perceptual feature (e.g., sa... — Carmelics
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    The presence of a particular perceptual feature (e.g., saturated blue) is not in general a reason, even a pro tanto reason, for admiring an artwork.

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    • 1.Saturated blue may be the right colour in one context while muddy brown is right in another.
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    • 2.Aesthetic reasons are context-sensitive and cannot be formulated as general rules about perceptual properties.
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    • 1.Sibley's account of aesthetic concepts shows that certain perceptual features reliably (if defeasibly) license aesthetic attributions across contexts.
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    • 2.A defeasible general reason is still a pro tanto reason, even when overridden by contextual factors in particular cases.
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    • 3.If saturated blue reliably tends to produce vividness or vitality across many artworks, this constitutes a weak but real aesthetic reason that the claim incorrectly denies.
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    • 1.Hume's standard of taste identifies trained critics who converge on perceptual features—including color saturation—as grounds for aesthetic judgment.
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    • 2.Cross-cultural empirical aesthetics (Palmer, Ou, et al.) documents systematic preferences for saturated hues that persist across contexts, suggesting non-zero pro tanto weight.
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    • 3.Universal or near-universal perceptual responses to a feature constitute at least a defeasible reason for admiration, contra the claim's blanket denial.
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    Studies such as these may be thought valuable in their capacity to explain persistent features of aesthetic artefact-making but are unlikely to provide more than a general background against which aesthetic preferences and judgements, debates and disagreements concerning particular artefacts are played out. Saturated blue will be the right colour in a certain context, while muddy brown will be right in another. We cannot say that the presence of saturated blue in a picture is in general a reason
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