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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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