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1. Sublime

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   Beyond sensory experience, the Sublime functions as an ontological checkpoint. The encounter is defined by a tension where the apprehension of limitlessness simultaneously implies potential annihilation. The observer is aware of their physical fragility—the potential for being subsumed by the vastness or destroyed by the power—but this recognition triggers a secondary, moral elevation.
   The psychological mechanism hinges on the concept of $\text{Teleological Disjunction}$: the perceived object def…