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"Kant approaches the judgement that something is beautiful as a judgement of taste...such a judgement is aesthetic...and by 'aesthetic' he means a judgement 'the rationale for which cannot be other than subjective.' 'Aesthetic' means 'subjective' for Kant...To criticize...normal 18th century German usage for not corresponding to normal 20th-century English usage, is a criticism which we would normally call 'odd.'" lo