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    Everyday aesthetics encourages attention to non-visual sensory experiences, which helps sharpen sensibility.

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    • 1.Non-visual sensory experiences permeate lived life and contribute to aesthetic experience.
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    • 2.Directing attention to underappreciated sensory modalities develops and refines perceptual sensitivity.
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    • 1.Kant's aesthetic theory grounds genuine aesthetic judgment in disinterested contemplation, which non-visual sensory experiences (taste, smell) typically cannot achieve.
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    • 2.Sensory experiences tied to bodily pleasure or utility lack the reflective distance required for cultivating aesthetic sensibility rather than mere appetite.
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    • 1.Increased attention to sensory stimuli can produce habituation and desensitization rather than refinement, as Dewey himself acknowledged in noting that routine dulls perception.
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    • 2.Sharpening sensibility requires structured aesthetic education and critical frameworks, not merely redirecting attention to previously ignored sensory channels.
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    Ambient aesthetics also highlights the important role played by non-visual sensory experiences that permeate our lived life. The relevance of the so-called lower senses in everyday aesthetics has already been mentioned (Section 5). However, possibly with an exception of the gustatory, non-visual sensory experiences, namely the auditory, the olfactory, and the haptic, tend to be eclipsed by the visual, although their contribution to our everyday aesthetic experience is undeniable (Ackerman 1991;
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