It is common to distinguish between attributive and predicative goodness. There are good reasons to think that artistic value is a kind of attributive goodness. Surprisingly, however, much debate in philosophical aesthetics has proceeded as though artistic value is a kind of predicative goodness. As I argue, recognizing that artistic value is attributive goodness has important consequences for a number of debates in aesthetics.
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