Taste is read as a holistic gestalt, not signal-by-signal

Evidence

By triangulating all the signals, cues, and absences, we understand someone’s taste as a gestalt. We can call this a sensibility—the underlying “feel” that choices express. Specific groups have specific sensibilities, but compared with an infinite number of signals, sensibilities are relatively more finite: e.g., basic, classy, WASPy, boho. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 248

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘sensibility’ as the finite gestalt read from an individual’s infinite signals.
• XREF: connects to: Great taste requires bounded originality beyond copying what one ought to like — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 256; Deliberate small flaws make a persona read as more authentic — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 271; Tastes encode a whole choice of being rather than sexual or physiological facts (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Taste organizes density, temperature, and time into a unified experienced being #expands (0.90)
• Tastes encode a whole choice of being rather than sexual or physiological facts #corroborates (0.85)
• Taste registers historical experience because the individual is itself a historical product #corroborates (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 167