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    It is not the case that Yuriko Saito argues that everyday aesthetics is grounded in direct, engaged familiarity with objects—not estrangement from them.

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    • 1.Habitual familiarity breeds perceptual numbness; aesthetic discovery often requires defamiliarization techniques that disrupt automaticity and reveal overlooked features.
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    • 2.Some aesthetic experiences require critical distance to function—appreciating a painting's composition or architecture's form benefits from stepping back, not intimate engagement.
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    • 3.Saito's framework risks conflating comfort and utility with aesthetic value, potentially misidentifying functional attachment as genuine aesthetic appreciation.
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    • 1.Aesthetic experience of familiar objects (e.g., a worn coffee mug) deepens through repeated interaction, revealing qualities invisible to detached observation.
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    • 2.Estrangement-based aesthetics requires artificial distance, making everyday beauty inaccessible to those without leisure for contemplative detachment.
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    • 3.Our most meaningful aesthetic encounters occur with objects we live with intimately, suggesting familiarity, not alienation, grounds genuine aesthetic appreciation.
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