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Isaac Shmukler

['Member']Joined: August 03, 2018 at 05:25Last active: August 11, 2018 at 19:364 discussions36 comments

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What is the other possibility? (I am afraid that we will continue only later since I have to go now.)
August 08, 2018 at 01:42
Any intended simplicity is also merely another kind of sophistication.
August 08, 2018 at 01:27
This is why sophistication and symmetry very often contribute to beauty. A chaotic art is not a disproof to this theory since its chaotic effect is in...
August 08, 2018 at 01:24
I will try to answer my question and you are welcome to comment. I have found a common factor to the phenomenon of beauty: The extent by which the obj...
August 08, 2018 at 01:23
Let's look through the entire life of a single individual, why is it that some things are beautiful to his eyes and some aren't?
August 08, 2018 at 01:12
There could be a cultural factor or some other reasons causing individuals to react differently to the same ballerina.
August 08, 2018 at 01:05
If that is what you meant to ask. These sub-experiences are reactions, I would say.
August 08, 2018 at 01:01
An important group is not required, unless one wants it to be importantly beautiful.
August 08, 2018 at 00:57
Let's talk about one individual experiencing beauty, what is this experience's origin?
August 08, 2018 at 00:56
Anyways, now that we have defined "beauty" (at least partially), can you help me find its general origin?
August 08, 2018 at 00:51
Now, I didn't get what you mean.
August 08, 2018 at 00:49
I agree that we feel that there is a difference between "appreciated" and "beautiful" but we can explain that this is due to the usually similar taste...
August 08, 2018 at 00:46
Why "appreciated" is not good enough for you?
August 08, 2018 at 00:44
Beautiful is just like tasty, no one is wrong!
August 08, 2018 at 00:39
I admit that "according" is confusing and should be omitted. I'm sorry for that.
August 08, 2018 at 00:38
Beautiful is just like tasty i don't want to be more confusing.
August 08, 2018 at 00:37
If there is a disagreement about whether something is tasty it is really not a disagreement and no one is wrong.
August 08, 2018 at 00:34
This is like the adjective "tasty."
August 08, 2018 at 00:32
I mean that beautiful will be always according to a particular beholder.
August 08, 2018 at 00:32
I should be honest I think that beautiful has many senses. When one says that something that is importantly accepted as beautiful is not beautiful, th...
August 08, 2018 at 00:30
They agree on a broader sens of beautiful: Appreciated by an important group of people.
August 08, 2018 at 00:28
I mean that, even if one decided that something isn't beautiful, it yet might be beautiful since someone else decided that it is beautiful.
August 08, 2018 at 00:25
I agree with that. The beholder decides whether something is beautiful. Although it might be yet beautiful since another beholder appreciates it.
August 08, 2018 at 00:23
The quality is that it is appreciated just as the example above of "wanted."
August 08, 2018 at 00:21
Consider the concept "wanted". What is the definition of "wanted"? The quality of things that one wants. It is the same by beauty.
August 08, 2018 at 00:20
It's clearer to put it this way: This is a quality that is defined through the appreciation of the beholder.
August 08, 2018 at 00:18
It is a quality of sights and sounds that depends upon the beholder.
August 08, 2018 at 00:15
Beauty is the quality that hold sights or sounds that give rise to a pleasant feeling. More precisely, it is the quality of sights or sounds that give...
August 08, 2018 at 00:03
It seems that my initial formulation is far from being clear. I should try to ask this question in a much simpler way: What is more important, the kno...
August 06, 2018 at 22:51
The suffix -able denotes an ability and the prefix ir- denotes a negation. This means that irrefutable means "that cannot be refuted." I have used thi...
August 03, 2018 at 08:14
I do! It is only irrefutable using the data currently available. Just as in the examples I already gave. I will give one more: There is life on planet...
August 03, 2018 at 08:06
Obviously logic and mathematics have statements that are more than reasonable. Furthermore, their negation is even inconceivable: x+y=y+x, if the obje...
August 03, 2018 at 07:43
I also didn't mean to beliefs that cannot be doubted. I meant to beliefs that might be false. Irrefutable only means that it cannot be disproved using...
August 03, 2018 at 07:33
By irrefutable I didn't mean that one cannot disprove it even theoretically. Of course, a person can theoretically come back to life and tell us that ...
August 03, 2018 at 07:29
By irrefutable I mean to negate claims like "it will rain tomorrow" since regarding these type of claims one has enough data to reasonably decide whet...
August 03, 2018 at 07:24