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Projective properties is the term used by Wollheim to account for expression and aesthetic properties. According to Wollheim "When some part of nature is held to correspond to a psychological phenomenon, this is because it is perceptible as being of a piece with that state or as something on to which we might have or could have projected the state. That it is perceptible in this way comes about through two factors which make their independent contributions to this result: an affinity in nature, and our capacity to project internal conditions." (Wollheim 1993, p. 154).

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