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We offer to the readers the translation of the key extract of the principle text written by George Dickie, a classic of American analytical philosophy of art. This text finished the process of formulation of the institutional theory of art and fixed the key positions of the philosophy of mind in the aesthetic field. George Dickie specially stressed his attention on falsifying the myth of aesthetic theories domination in the act of aesthetic perception, on criticizing the theory of psychical (aesthetical) distance: instead of them he built the new — institutionally analytical — paradigm of gnoseological thinking on the aesthetic problems. Now is near the finish the work at the full translation of this important investigation to publishing which Professor George Dickie transferred the extraordinary right to the author of this text