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    There is no inconsistency in Dewey's account of aesthetic... — Carmelics
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    There is no inconsistency in Dewey's account of aesthetic experience.

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    • 1.Every normally complete experience is aesthetic in its consummatory phase.
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    • 2.The arts and their experience are developments of this primary consummatory phase.
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    • 3.Treating aesthetic experience as a phase present in all complete experience and as the heightened form found in art represents continuity of development, not incompatibility.
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    • 1.Dewey defines aesthetic experience by its felt qualitative unity, yet also identifies it as a structural phase in all complete experience, conflating evaluative and descriptive uses.
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    • 2.A concept cannot simultaneously function as a normative ideal distinguishing art from routine and as a descriptive feature present in all consummatory experience without equivocation.
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    • 3.This equivocation was identified by Monroe Beardsley, who argued Dewey's account oscillates between experience being aesthetic by degree and aesthetic by kind, undermining coherence.
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    • 1.Dewey's continuity thesis requires that artistic aesthetic experience differ from ordinary consummatory experience only in degree, not in kind.
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    • 2.Yet Dewey repeatedly characterizes art as involving a distinct, heightened perceptual attentiveness irreducible to the satisfaction found in ordinary skilled action or problem-solving.
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    • 3.If art's aesthetic experience is genuinely irreducible to ordinary consummation, the continuity argument in the supporting premises conceals a categorical distinction rather than resolving one.
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    Patrick Romanell (1949) held that Croce and Dewey at least share the view that art is about aesthetic experience. However, Dewey’s definition of the subject matter of philosophy of art as aesthetic experience (which treats it as a special type of experience) is inconsistent with his definition of it as the aesthetic phase of experience. Also, when Dewey speaks of aesthetic experience he is not functionalist and is not consistent with his pragmatism. Dewey should have held that just as there is n
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