Abstract
Frank Sibley's analysis of aesthetic concepts and aesthetic judgment have presented a rather irritating heritage for analytic aesthetics. This tradition, to which Sibley undoubtedly belong, has been unable to accommodate Sibley's thoughts and to built upon them.
One of the possible reasons could be that Sibley's views on aesthetic concepts and judgment were pragmatically oriented; and pragmatic philosophy is still not in accordance with the mainstream of analytic aesthetics (which is rather empiricist in nature even thought implicitly). This orientation of Sibley's thought is most explicit in his analysis of metaphoric nature of (some) aesthetic concepts.
In the present paper I propose to interconnect these parts of Sibley's aesthetics and pragmatically oriented theories of metaphor and theories of meaning (/Donald Davidson, Robert Brandom).