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    Everyday aesthetics should encompass the full range of aesthetic experiences, including negative and neutral ones, not only positively-valued experiences.

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    • 1.Some things strike us with powerful positive aesthetic values, as in great art or spectacular landscapes.
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    • 2.Some things do not affect us much because they are boring, non-descript, or plain.
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    • 3.Some objects and phenomena offend or disturb us profoundly because their sensuous appearance is hideous, monstrous, or appalling, without any overall redeeming value.
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    • 1.Aesthetic experience, as Dewey argues in 'Art as Experience,' is defined by its consummatory quality—a unified, fulfilling completion that distinguishes it from mere perception.
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    • 2.Neutral or indifferent encounters with everyday objects lack this consummatory structure and therefore constitute perceptual events, not aesthetic experiences proper.
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    • 3.Expanding 'aesthetic experience' to include neutral responses dissolves the conceptual boundary that makes the category theoretically useful and distinct from ordinary cognition.
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    • 1.Kant's analytic of the beautiful establishes that genuine aesthetic judgment requires a felt response of pleasure or displeasure accompanied by a claim to universal communicability.
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    • 2.Neutral or indifferent encounters generate no such felt response and therefore fail to meet the minimal conditions for aesthetic judgment as traditionally construed.
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    • 3.Admitting neutral experiences into everyday aesthetics conflates the phenomenological category of aesthetic attention with the broader and less discriminating category of sensory awareness.
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    Another important issue regarding the term ‘aesthetics’ in everyday aesthetics is the distinction between its honorific and classificatory use. In both aesthetics discourse and common vernacular, the term ‘aesthetic’ is generally used in the honorific sense. Hence, something having an aesthetic property is generally regarded positively and gaining an aesthetic experience is understood to mean that it is a meaningful and satisfying experience. However, increasing number of everyday aestheticians
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