If art's aesthetic experience is genuinely irreducible to ordinary consummation, the continuity argument in the supporting premises conceals a categorical distinction rather than resolving one.

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aesthetic experience(Sulzer's aesthetics): A variety of free and unhindered activity of the representational capacity that produces pleasurable sentiments.
categorical distinction(contrasted with modal or perspectival distinctions): A fundamental, real difference in what something IS or what category it belongs to—not just how it appears or from what angle you look at it.
continuity argument(as used in philosophy of art): A type of reasoning that tries to show how two seemingly different things are actually connected or on a sliding scale with each other.
irreducible(Personalist anthropology; distinguishes personhood from mere biological individuality): That which is unique and unrepeatable in each human being, by virtue of which a person is not merely an individual of a species but a personal subject.

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