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    Dewey's own naturalism commits him to rejecting any exper... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Dewey should have held that there is no such thing as aesthetic experience as a discrete category.

    Dewey's own naturalism commits him to rejecting any experience-type that cannot be grounded in a specific, identifiable biological or social function.

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    • 1.Dewey explicitly grounds experience in organism-environment interaction, requiring functional relevance for legitimacy.
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    • 2.Admitting non-functional experiences undermines naturalism by allowing explanatory gaps that transcend biological/social causation.
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    • 3.Evolution selects only experiences that enhance survival or social coordination, making non-functional experiences explanatorily suspect.
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    • 1.Aesthetic and contemplative experiences lack direct survival function yet Dewey values them—showing his actual view permits non-functional experiences.
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    • 2.The criterion 'identifiable function' is unfalsifiable; we can always retrospectively invent functions for any experience, making it vacuous.
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    • 3.Some experiences (dreams, grief, artistic vision) resist reduction to specific biological or social functions without remainder.
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