Kant himself grants in the Third Critique that aesthetic judgment begins with singular encounters ('this rose is beautiful'), undermining any pre-experiential abstraction as its source.

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Aesthetic judgment(Lyotard's appropriation of Kantian aesthetic judgment for the problem of justice.): Judgment that does not produce denotative knowledge about a determinable state of affairs, but refers to the way our faculties interact as we move among modes of phrasing (denotative, prescriptive, performative, political, cognitive, artistic, etc.).
Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
Pre-experiential abstraction(as what Kant argues does NOT cause aesthetic judgment): An idea or rule you already have in your head *before* you actually experience something, rather than forming your judgment from the experience itself.
Singular encounters(as what Kant says aesthetic judgment starts with)

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