 Studies in the new field of “experimental philosophy” (for some overviews of this field, as applied to aesthetics, see Cova &amp; Réhault 2018 and Torregrossa 2020) challenge this view. One study (Cova, Olivola, et al. 2019) gathered more than two thousand responses across 19 countries to an imagined disagreement about whether an object of aesthetic interest is beautiful. It found that in all populations the least popular view was that “someone is right and someone is wrong”. The study itself has come in for criticism (Zangwill 2018) but, regardless of its success, it highlights the general point that we should not assume without evidence that the philosopher’s understanding of folk concepts (or folk practice) matches that of the folk themselves: something that should be of concern to those, such as Dickie, who conceive of the work of aestheticians as largely involving the elucidation of folk concepts.