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Full Idea
The judgement of beauty makes a claim about its object, and can be supported by reasons. But the reasons do not compel the judgement and can be rejected without contradiction. So are they reasons or aren't they?
Gist of Idea
Do aesthetic reasons count as reasons, if they are rejectable without contradiction?
Source
Roger Scruton (Beauty: a very short introduction [2011], 1)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'Beauty: A Very Short Introduction' [OUP 2011], p.7
A Reaction
I suspect that what he is really referring to is evidence rather than reasons.