 Following Guyer’s own assessment of the common sense as an “unnecessary detour” (1979 [1997: 274]) in the overall argument of the Deduction, many commentators have disregarded the common sense in their discussions of Kant’s theory of taste. Recently, however, there has been much more attention to the notion of the common sense. Matherne (2019), who follows Allison in distinguishing an aesthetic from a cognitive common sense, takes aesthetic common sense as something that we acquire (thus as regulative rather than constitutive), and invokes it to help make sense of Kant’s view that taste is autonomous. Makkai (2021: ch. 4) examines and rejects Allison’s distinction between an aesthetic and cognitive common sense, arguing that §21 points to a parallel between cognition and taste in that both require a feeling of “what…calls for judging” or “what matters” (159). Sethi (forthcoming) also rejects the distinction, pointing out that the need for it is premised on the assumption that the “feeling” invoked at §20 must be a feeling of pleasure, and arguing (drawing in part on Sethi 2019) that the feeling of the free play of the faculties is not a feeling of pleasure (see  Section 2.3.1).  She takes the common sense to be necessary for empirical concept-acquisition, so that the notion of common sense plays a crucial role in accounting for the relation between taste and cognition.