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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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.