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    Beardsley's account presupposes a unified phenomenological 'feel' to aesthetic experience, but Wittgenstein's family resemblance concept shows no single experiential thread need connect all aesthetic encounters.

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    Beardsley
    # Beardsley Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) was a groundbreaking English illustrator and artist known for his distinctive black-and-white drawings featuring bold lines, dramatic contrasts, and often provocative or sensual imagery. He became famous for illustrating literary classics like Oscar Wilde's "Salome" and became a defining visual artist of the Art Nouveau movement in the late 1800s. His innovative style influenced graphic design and illustration for generations, though his work was sometimes considered controversial for its boldness and erotic undertones.
    Experiential thread(as what family resemblance challenges)
    A continuous, connecting element that runs through all instances of something—in this case, a shared feeling that links all aesthetic encounters together.
    Phenomenological(describing the approach to studying self-awareness in this debate)
    Related to phenomenology, the philosophical study of what it's actually like to experience things and how consciousness works from the inside.
    Wittgenstein
    Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who fundamentally changed how people think about language and meaning in the 20th century. He argued that many philosophical problems arise from misunderstanding how words actually work in everyday life, rather than from deep metaphysical mysteries. His ideas influenced not just philosophy but also mathematics, logic, and even how people approach psychology and artificial intelligence today.

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    aesthetic experience(Sulzer's aesthetics)
    A variety of free and unhindered activity of the representational capacity that produces pleasurable sentiments.
    family resemblance(how words get their meaning)
    Wittgenstein's idea that some groups of things (like games, or the word 'game') don't need one single definition that applies to all of them—instead, they're connected by overlapping similarities, like how members of a family share different features without all sharing the same ones.

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