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    It is not the case that Dewey's definition of the subject matter of philosophy of art as aesthetic experience (treating it as a special type of experience) is inconsistent with his definition of aesthetic experience as the aesthetic phase of experience.

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    • 1.Defining aesthetic experience as a special type of experience implies it is categorically distinct from ordinary experience.
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    • 2.Defining aesthetic experience as the aesthetic phase of experience implies it is a dimension present within all experience, not a separate category.
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    • 1.Dewey explicitly reserves philosophy of art for 'aesthetic experience' as a distinct subject matter in Art as Experience Ch.1, implying categorical demarcation.
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    • 2.Dewey simultaneously argues in the same text that the aesthetic is a quality potentially present in any experience, making it a phase rather than a kind.
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    • 3.A subject matter defined by categorical distinctness cannot simultaneously be defined as a pervasive qualitative dimension without logical contradiction.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's family resemblance concept shows that treating something as a 'special type' commits one to identifying necessary and sufficient distinguishing conditions.
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    • 2.Dewey's phase-based account, like Aristotle's notion of energeia pervading activity, entails no such boundary conditions—any experience can be aesthetic to a degree.
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    • 3.These two definitional frameworks—type-individuation versus phase-gradation—are structurally incompatible modes of classification, as Quine's work on natural kinds demonstrates.
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