Abstract
First, I analyze aesthetic properties and judgments as a para-digmatic case of overcoming the fact/value dichotomy. The ae-sthetic judgments are, therefore, defined as cognitive in a non-conceptual way and normative without defined standards. Then, I aim to a deduction in the Kantian sense of aesthetic judgments, connecting the empirical and the transcendental le-vel of the exposition. The core of the deduction is the idea of an “aesthetic mechanism” as basis for the epigenesis of the ae-sthetic.
