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John D. Westlake's avatar

There's two ways to think about that. If you buy that aesthetic judgment has truth values and there is such a thing as correctness, then either

1 you are mistaken or

2 everyone else is

Both of which are reasonable options, if not exactly easy to answer. Visual illusions make things look as they aren't, which can fool many people even though there is a fact to decide between true and false claims.

If the value of art is all down to subjective taste, that makes the question a lot easier, if less satisfying.

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