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Taste is the 'mental faculty' with which we judge reflectively our pleasant mental state of having a free play of the cognitive faculties while perceiving imaginatively an aesthetic property, i.e. a represented tertiary quality. Pace Sibley who saw taste as the faculty with which we perceive aesthetic properties.
© Rob van Gerwen
Last update: 12 April 1996
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