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    It is not the case that There is no inconsistency in Dewey's account of aesthetic experience.

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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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    • 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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