The historical success of formalist criticism in isolating cross-cultural aesthetic properties suggests that contextual factors are contingent aids to perception, not constitutive of the evaluative judgment itself.

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Contextual factors(as used in philosophy of language): The surrounding circumstances, situation details, or background information that might affect the meaning or truth of a statement.
Cross-cultural aesthetic properties(in discussing what makes something beautiful): Qualities of beauty or artistic appeal that seem to work the same way across different cultures and societies, suggesting they might be universal rather than tied to one specific tradition.
Formalist criticism(as a method of evaluating art and aesthetics): An approach to analyzing art that focuses on the work itself—its colors, shapes, composition, and structure—rather than its historical background, the artist's life, or what it represents.
constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be): Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.

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