aesthetics

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Who can say if they swung it or not, but the aesthetics were the right ones, the ambitious ones.

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  1. noun The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and expression of beauty, as in the fine arts.
  2. noun In Kantian philosophy, the branch of metaphysics concerned with the laws of perception.
  3. noun The study of the psychological responses to beauty and artistic experiences.

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