Family resemblance explains surface clustering, not why we group phenomena under one term; explaining that requires identifying what unified selection pressures or functional properties constitute 'aesthetic'.

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Aesthetic: # Aesthetic An aesthetic is a set of principles about what makes something beautiful, appealing, or artistically pleasing. It's basically your personal taste or style—the qualities you find attractive in art, design, fashion, or anything else. For example, someone might have a "minimalist aesthetic" (loving simple, clean designs) or a "vintage aesthetic" (preferring old-fashioned styles).
Functional properties(The statement argues these properties determine color experience): The characteristics of something defined by what it does and how it interacts with other things, rather than its physical makeup.
Selection pressures(as used in evolutionary biology and philosophy): Forces in evolution that favor certain traits because they help organisms survive and reproduce; for example, speed becomes favored in prey animals because faster ones escape predators.
family resemblance(how words get their meaning): Wittgenstein's idea that some groups of things (like games, or the word 'game') don't need one single definition that applies to all of them—instead, they're connected by overlapping similarities, like how members of a family share different features without all sharing the same ones.

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