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    Visible beauty arises only from the most superficial features of objects, not from their full reality.

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    • 1.Sight perceives only appearances, not the deeper truth about physical reality.
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    • 2.Only the sense of touch puts us into direct contact with reality.
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    • 1.Vision discloses structural properties—symmetry, proportion, harmony—that are constitutive of an object's formal reality, not mere surface accidents.
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    • 2.Leibniz and Wolff held that beauty consists in perceived perfection, where perfection names objective internal order apprehensible through clear sensory cognition.
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    • 3.If formal structure belongs to full reality, then visual perception of that structure yields genuine, not merely superficial, contact with what the object is.
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    • 1.Touch is itself limited to surface contact and texture, providing no privileged access to molecular composition, internal relations, or functional essence.
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    • 2.The claim that touch alone reaches 'full reality' arbitrarily privileges one sensory modality without a principled account of what constitutes depth of reality.
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    • 3.Condillac's sensationist analysis shows each sense contributes distinct, irreducible information, undermining any hierarchy that demotes vision to mere superficiality.
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    The main thrust of the fourth Grove, building upon Herder’s insistence that aesthetics must employ the methods of both Aristotle and Kames in order to reach Baumgartian conclusions, is that recognition of the distinctions among our senses will explain the variety of both forms of art and forms of aesthetic response. The premise of Herder’s argument is that aesthetic response is not the disinterested reaction of a special internal sense to purely formal properties of objects, but is really the he
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