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1420:Association
1133:(c. 335 BC)
1123:(c. 390 BC)
1102:Work of art
1055:Picturesque
911:Avant-garde
868:Winckelmann
743:Kierkegaard
668:Collingwood
638:Baudrillard
565:Romanticism
535:Historicism
469:Mathematics
190:One or many
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138:explanation
106:August 2014
1731:Perception
1715:Categories
1685:Mental set
1564:Peripheral
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643:Baumgarten
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430:Aesthetics
394:PhilPapers
263:References
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1660:Intention
1645:Attention
1579:Harmonics
1532:RGB model
1482:Intuition
1452:Foresight
1445:affective
1425:Awareness
1412:Cognition
1077:Reverence
983:Eroticism
953:Depiction
926:Masculine
828:Santayana
788:Nietzsche
733:Hutcheson
723:Heidegger
708:Greenberg
663:Coleridge
628:Balthasar
613:Aristotle
575:Theosophy
570:Symbolism
545:Modernism
530:Formalism
205:The Raven
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1690:Thinking
1670:Learning
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1143:(c. 100)
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973:Emotions
968:Elegance
948:Cuteness
921:Feminine
884:Concepts
853:Tanizaki
833:Schiller
818:Richards
808:Rancière
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713:Hanslick
653:Benjamin
525:Feminism
494:Theology
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459:Internet
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183:efferent
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1492:methods
1347:Outline
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1097:Tragedy
1087:Sublime
1060:Quality
1045:Mimesis
1003:Harmony
988:Fashion
963:Ecstasy
958:Disgust
874:more...
843:Scruton
768:Lyotard
703:Goodman
683:Deleuze
618:Aquinas
608:Alberti
581:more...
560:Realism
540:Marxism
520:Fascism
503:Schools
489:Science
444:Ancient
383:at the
167:stances
128:In the
90:scholar
1629:Recall
1606:Memory
1596:Visual
1589:Speech
1569:Social
1549:Haptic
1522:Amodal
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1233:(1946)
1223:(1939)
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1193:(1933)
1183:(1891)
1173:(1835)
1163:(1757)
1030:Kitsch
1008:Humour
938:Comedy
916:Beauty
858:Vasari
848:Tagore
823:Ruskin
763:Lukács
753:Langer
698:Goethe
623:Balázs
603:Adorno
484:Nature
449:Africa
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1574:Sound
1553:Touch
1539:Depth
1527:Color
1342:Index
1111:Works
1092:Taste
1082:Style
863:Wilde
803:Plato
798:Pater
758:Lipps
718:Hegel
688:Dewey
678:Danto
658:Burke
479:Music
454:India
437:Areas
329:9 May
308:9 May
132:, an
97:JSTOR
83:books
1544:Form
1066:Rasa
1024:Kama
998:Gaze
933:Camp
813:Rand
748:Klee
738:Kant
728:Hume
648:Bell
331:2017
310:2017
289:2017
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