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    It is not the case that Wittgenstein's concept of 'seeing-as' entails that perceiving an object as beautiful is always a perceptual interpretation, not a passive reception of form.

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    • 1.Some aesthetic responses occur pre-reflectively and immediately, before interpretive frameworks can be consciously applied to perception.
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    • 2.Distinguishing 'interpretation' from 'perception' requires criteria Wittgenstein never clearly establishes, making the claim conceptually ambiguous.
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    • 3.Evolutionary accounts suggest beauty perception involves direct affective responses to form properties, not necessarily mediated by cultural interpretation.
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    • 1.Seeing-as involves active configuration of sensory data according to conceptual frameworks, making all perception interpretive rather than passive.
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    • 2.Beauty judgments vary culturally and historically, suggesting aesthetic perception depends on learned interpretive schemes, not raw form reception.
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    • 3.The same object appears beautiful or ugly depending on perspective, demonstrating that beauty emerges from interpretive acts, not objective properties.
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