Aesthetics is commonly known as the stuy of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste.[cite this quote] More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature." Aesthetics is a subdiscipline of axiology, a branch of philosophy, and is closely associated with the philosophy of art.[cite this quote] Aesthetics studies new ways of seeing and of perceiving the world.