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    Retaining the honorific sense preserves a principled dist... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The honorific use of 'aesthetic' is inadequate as the sole meaning of the term in everyday aesthetics.

    Retaining the honorific sense preserves a principled distinction between aesthetic and non-aesthetic engagement that the root-meaning expansion collapses.

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    • 1.Aesthetic engagement involves distinctive evaluative standards (beauty, form, composition) absent from ordinary functional assessment.
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    • 2.Collapsing honorific and root meanings obscures how aesthetic appreciation requires cultivated perception distinct from everyday experience.
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    • 3.Preserving the distinction protects aesthetic discourse from trivializing comparisons (e.g., 'cooking is art' dilutes 'art' conceptually).
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    • 1.Many activities (cooking, gardening, engineering) genuinely involve aesthetic properties without requiring 'honorific' status to recognize them.
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    • 2.The honorific/non-honorific split assumes aesthetic value is rare and elevated, but aesthetic experience pervades ordinary objects and practices.
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    • 3.Conceptual expansion better reflects how aesthetic and functional dimensions coexist in single objects rather than occupying separate categories.
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