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    It is not the case that Wollheim's account in 'Art and Its Objects' establishes that perceptual properties belong exclusively to particular instances, not to the type, making 'extended' attribution explanatorily idle rather than genuinely descriptive.

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    • 1.Multiple tokens of the same type (prints, casts, performances) can share identical perceptual properties, suggesting type-level description captures real similarities.
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    • 2.We meaningfully discuss what properties a musical composition or literary work has independent of any single instantiation, suggesting type-properties are genuine.
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    • 3.Denying type-properties leaves no principled way to explain why two instances of the same work look similar or why we recognize instances as belonging to the same type.
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    • 1.Perceptual properties like color and texture are directly observable only in individual artworks, not in abstract types or classes.
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    • 2.Attributing properties to types rather than tokens commits a category mistake—types are not objects of perception but conceptual abstractions.
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    • 3.Extended type-attribution does no explanatory work: we always ultimately appeal to particular instance-properties to explain aesthetic experience.
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