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    It is not the case that Visible beauty arises only from the most superficial features of objects, not from their full 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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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