It is in order to conceptualise this bond that Kant proposes that aesthetic satisfaction must 'be regarded as grounded on what [one] can presuppose in every other person'. 3 It is what explains John Dewey's attempt to understand aesthetic experience on the basis of an experience. That is, rather than start by assuming the distinctiveness of aesthetic experience, Dewey does the exact opposite and emphasizes its commonality with experiences as mundane as 'that meal, that storm, that rupture of friendship'. .
