Of course we can "judge" someone else's aesthetic response -- in the sense 
that we can have personal disdain for the person's sensibility as evidenced, 
say, by his asserting that Bach, Beethoven and Mozart bore or disgust him, and 
he 
much prefers rap.

What we can't do is prove that his sensibility is absolutely right or wrong 
-- where by 'absolutely' I mean we can't cite any mind-independent "fact of the 
matter".   "Literature" has many examples of works/authors who were once held 
in the highest reverence and later fell into disrepute. Consider the cyclical 
reputation of John Milton and his "Paradise Lost" as "judged" by esteemed 
literary sensibilities over the centuries.  


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