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    Challenges→The honorific use of 'aesthetic' is inadequate as the sole meaning of the term in everyday aesthetics.

    Monroe Beardsley argued that aesthetic experience requires a characteristic phenomenological profile—unity, intensity, and complexity—that excludes neutral or merely sensory encounters.

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    Key Terms

    Intensity(one way natural and supernatural cognition might differ)
    The degree or strength of something; here, how powerful or clear the knowledge is.
    Monroe Beardsley(his theory about literary meaning is being discussed here)
    An American philosopher who studied aesthetics (the philosophy of art and beauty) and how literary meaning works.
    Phenomenological profile(as the type of characteristics Beardsley identifies)
    The specific qualities or characteristics of how something actually feels or appears to your mind when you experience it.
    aesthetic experience(Sulzer's aesthetics)
    A variety of free and unhindered activity of the representational capacity that produces pleasurable sentiments.
    complexity

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    (Second decision point in the Explanatory Filter, applied to contingent phenomena)
    A property of phenomena that go beyond mere breakdown or disorder; used in the Explanatory Filter to distinguish chance from design among contingent events
    unity(Derived from being by adding the notion of indivision alone.)
    Being that is undivided; the concept of being with the purely negative addition of indivision.

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