If the experience of beauty were awareness only of one's representational effect rather than its cause, the normative dimension of Baumgarten's aesthetica—that trained taste tracks real objective perfection—would be unintelligible.
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representational effect(as contrasted with the cause of that effect)
The impression or feeling something creates in your mind—basically, how it makes you feel or what it makes you think of when you experience it.
trained taste(as what Baumgarten believed tracks objective perfection)
The ability to recognize and appreciate beauty that comes from education, experience, and practice—like how a wine expert's palate is more refined than a beginner's.
unintelligible(as describing what would happen to Baumgarten's theory without this distinction)
Impossible to understand or make sense of; completely unclear or contradictory.