ABSTRACT
In the second part, I make an extensive analysis of aesthetic experience by studying aesthetic judgments as they appear in talk. To give a first glimpse of the nature of such aesthetic judgments and to animate the theoretical argument, for now I give two initial examples of talk where such aesthetic judgments occur. The first concerns a chemistry teacher, who commented on how the students had arranged their test tubes in analyzing the content on the laboratory desk:
In this particular transcript the teacher used the word nice, which is related to the use of the word beautiful. In accordance with the earlier definition of aesthetic judgments as dealing with the beautiful, the teacher can hence be said to have made an aesthetic judgment.
