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    Dewey should have held that there is no such thing as aes... — Carmelics
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    Dewey should have held that there is no such thing as aesthetic experience as a discrete category.

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    • 1.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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    • 2.Aesthetic experience, unlike hunger or fear, picks out no single adaptive function but instead names a quality diffused across all consummatory experience.
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    • 3.Therefore, by Dewey's own functional-naturalist criteria, 'aesthetic experience' designates a quality of any experience, not a discrete experiential kind.
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    • 1.Dewey explicitly argues in 'Art as Experience' that the aesthetic is the culmination of ordinary experience whenever it achieves integration and completeness.
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    • 2.If aesthetic quality is constitutively present in any fully realized experience, it cannot simultaneously demarcate a bounded category separate from other experiences.
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    • 3.Wittgenstein's family-resemblance analysis of 'aesthetic' similarly shows that the term tracks no essential common property, supporting Dewey's own anti-essentialist commitments.
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    • 1.Dewey held that there is no such thing as religious experience as a discrete category.
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    • 2.The same reasoning that rules out a discrete religious experience should rule out a discrete aesthetic experience.
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    Patrick Romanell (1949) held that Croce and Dewey at least share the view that art is about aesthetic experience. However, Dewey’s definition of the subject matter of philosophy of art as aesthetic experience (which treats it as a special type of experience) is inconsistent with his definition of it as the aesthetic phase of experience. Also, when Dewey speaks of aesthetic experience he is not functionalist and is not consistent with his pragmatism. Dewey should have held that just as there is n
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