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What are the essences of “appearance,” “fiction,” and “illusion” as they apply to the field of aesthetics? The task of this entry is to shed light on this problem from the standpoint of phenomenology. This position already specifies our task. For example, a mirage is a kind of illusion, but it is not necessarily an aesthetic phenomenon. It belongs, no matter how beautiful it may be, to the field of “physical phenomena” in the sense of Franz Brentano. In contrast to this, aesthetics is concerned only with “psychic phenomena,” or better, “intentional phenomena,” which is the field that concerns phenomenology.
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Toru, T. (2009). Appearance. In: Sepp, H., Embree, L. (eds) Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2471-8_3
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