# [Paper Title] ## Quotes > > Kant claims that judgements of [[dependent beauty]] "presuppose" a concept of the purpose that determines what a given thing is and "consequently of its perfection" (§16, 67). It is these two elements—the presupposition of a purpose and [[the idea]] of perfection—that must somehow be reconciled with what we already know of aesthetic judgement to render that judgement one of [[dependent beauty]]. (Chapter III, Design and [[Dependent Beauty]], p. 164) >In general, he notes, “there is no ‘definitive’ way to realize any given purpose” ( pace Guyer): the purpose of an object like a church or a bicycle “is an abstract concept,” and for that reason we can “never fully determine every contingent detail of its concrete instantiation,” which keeps our judgements from becoming deter- minant and cognitive. But further, in [[dependent beauty]] it is not only that we play upon the many ways to realize a given purpose, but that we directly “appreciate how the actually presented object realizes the given purpose in its specific way” when we judge it to be beautiful. > ## Brainstorms ## Notes ## Drafts ## Resources ### Readwise ### Literature Notes ## Resources ## Odds and Sods