Aesthetics
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[n] the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art); "traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value"
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artistic taste, axiology, casuistry, connoisseurship, cosmology, dilettantism, epicureanism, epicurism, epistemology, ethics, expertise, expertism, first philosophy, friandise, gastronomy, gnosiology, logic, mental philosophy, metaphysics, moral philosoph