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    Challenges→Everyday aesthetics should encompass the full range of aesthetic experiences, including negative and neutral ones, not only positively-valued experiences.

    Admitting neutral experiences into everyday aesthetics conflates the phenomenological category of aesthetic attention with the broader and less discriminating category of sensory awareness.

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    Key Terms

    Aesthetic attention(as used in aesthetics)
    The focused, deliberate way we pay attention to something specifically to appreciate its beauty, form, or artistic qualities.
    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Discriminating (category)(as used in philosophy of perception)
    In this context, it means selective or careful about distinguishing between different types of things.
    Everyday aesthetics(as used in aesthetics)
    The philosophical study of beauty and aesthetic experience in ordinary, everyday objects and situations—not just in art museums or formal art.
    Phenomenological(describing the approach to studying self-awareness in this debate)

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    Related to phenomenology, the philosophical study of what it's actually like to experience things and how consciousness works from the inside.
    Sensory awareness(as used in philosophy of perception)
    The basic, general noticing of information coming through our senses—like hearing a sound or feeling warmth—without any special focus or appreciation.

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