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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By degree(as one way Dewey describes aesthetic experience): Something that comes in amounts or levels—like how something can be a little aesthetic or very aesthetic, on a scale.
By kind(as the other way Dewey describes aesthetic experience): Something that is fundamentally different in type or category—like how a chair is a different kind of thing than a table, not just more or less of the same thing.
Equivocation(Lewis diagnoses the ontological argument as equivocating on 'a being than which nothing greater can be conceived is possible'.): A fallacy in which a key term or phrase is used in two different senses within the same argument, making an invalid inference appear valid.
John Dewey(major pragmatist philosopher): An American philosopher (1859-1952) who developed pragmatism further and emphasized learning through experience and democratic problem-solving.

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