Kant into the science of aesthetics (Hammermeister, 2002).
             Since he continues in the line developed by the two aforementioned philosophers, according to Wessell Jr., Baumgarten made of "aesthetics" an autonomous field only in his psychology and not in his metaphysics. His metaphysics contain the Leibnizian theories underlined by Croce, "that any cognitive determination by sensation could be understood in intellectual terms. In short, sensuous experience would appear to have nothing about it that is irreducible and that could be the subject of an autonomous science called "aesthetics" " (Wessell, Jr., 1972). The science of the soul has two faculties, thus two ways of perception of the universe, according to Baumgarten (idem).
             Baumgarten explained that the "life of knowledge" involved the domain of "aesthetics" as a contributor to the whole. Aesthetics may be, as in Wolff's theory, an inferior form of knowledge, but it was theorized by Baumgarten as a perfect form of knowledge. Conceptual knowledge and sensible knowledge develop both distinct forms of clarities (Makkreel, 1996). Makkreel explains that Baumgarten showed that the aesthetic knowledge enriches a representation with more marks making them "extensively clearer" and thus rendering the field of aesthetics its perfection (idem).
             In his attempts to define and explain the filed of aesthetics, Baumgarten did not seek to define beauty per se, but like his predecessors, to make "the distinction of two ways of apprehension: an intellectual way in which one can "enumerate one by one the marks which suffice for distinguishing the thing from others" and the aesthetic in which apprehension is and must remain sensuous and "confused" (repraesentatio confusa)" (Ogden, 1933).
             Baumgarten laid the ground for what today is called cognitive science and aesthetics that comprises the interconne...