ficient to maintain the ordinary correspondence of life (11).
People appeal in their arguments to certain tests and standards accepted on all sides. With reference to taste, however, there do not seem to be any such commonly accepted standards, and human beings differ in their perception of taste. Burke notes that the term itself is not extremely accurate, but he offers his own view that taste is
no more than the faculty, or those faculties of the mind which are affected with, or which form a judgment of the works of imagination and the elegant arts (13).
In analyzing taste, Burke begins with sense experience, and he believes that all human beings have essentially the same perceptions of external objects. Differences in taste, then, do not derive from sense experience but in the ideas developed i
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