Grounding aesthetic experience solely in liveliness conflates psychological vividness with aesthetic value, a distinction Hegel later formalized in his account of Schein as semblance requiring conceptual mediation.
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A German word meaning 'semblance' or 'appearance'—the idea that something can look or seem a certain way on the surface, but requires thinking about its deeper meaning to truly understand it.
Semblance(as used in aesthetics)
An appearance or outward show of something; something that looks like it is a certain way, but might not be fully understood without thinking deeper about it.
aesthetic experience(Sulzer's aesthetics)
A variety of free and unhindered activity of the representational capacity that produces pleasurable sentiments.
aesthetic value(Langer's characterization of how pragmatism interprets aesthetic value)
Within the pragmatist framework being criticized, either a direct satisfaction or something instrumental to fulfilling psychological needs
conceptual mediation(as the unavoidable filter Sellars says affects all perception)
The process where our pre-existing ideas, beliefs, and language shape how we understand what we perceive, rather than us seeing things exactly as they are.