Well, I'm sceptical about precisely that - but happy to be corrected. (By that, of course, I mean that I am sceptical that 'necessary' and 'contingent...
No, I've said explicitly that art is 'that which answers to the concept of art'. The concept of a chair is not a chair. Chairs are chairs. Concepts ar...
I don't think that's what 'always' means (since something could always be the case, yet not be necessarily the case). 'Has' to be the case would be mo...
'Determining it' is ambiguous. It can be used to mean the same as 'discerning it'. (The witnesses determined that Sarah was stabbed by James). If that...
Ah, I now see that the 'it' refers to 'exclusivity'. Well, in a way what you've said just underlines my point - which is that words like 'necessary' '...
What does the 'it' refer to? I don't follow you. I'm not arguing for magic. I mean, it is necessity and contingency that seem to require magic, not th...
They are not 'deciding' it, but discerning it. If we can just 'decide' these things then just decide that art is a piece of cheese and be done. It's l...
No, not completely - one of the reasons why it is not a perfect test. But taking that possibility too seriously amounts to just being a radical scepti...
If archaeologists dug it up now, and because of where they dug it up from conclude that it is 20,000 years old, would they consider it a work of art? ...
It's not secret - I've made it on this forum before - it's just not on topic. But here it is boiled down to its basics: 1. Prescriptions of Reason exi...
Well, first we should not assume that there is some set of features that all artworks have to have in common in order to be art. What I am proposing i...
That's what you say. I say "if A is B, and B is C, then A is C". I don't think those don't mean the same as 'necessarily'. For instance, most would ho...
I am arguing that we do not need necessity - that we can dispense with it and still be able to reason about reality just fine, find out stuff, and not...
All you are doing, it seems to me, is insisting that there are necessary truths. You are not showing me why I must, on pain of incoherence, accept the...
I don't really follow you. Let's say I define 'bachelor' as 'never married man'. Well, as Roger is a never married man, then Roger is a bachelor. That...
That's a misleading way to put it. It doesn't 'host' conscious states (for that implies they could exist elsewhere - they just happen to be attending ...
I think the bulk of the philosophical community - naming them all would take years. But the vast bulk would accept that some truths are necessary and ...
Conscious states are 'states' of a thing. That thing is, by definition, 'a mind' ('a mind' being just 'that which bears conscious states'). So if you ...
You expressed in an earlier post your conviction that God's existence could not be demonstrated rationally. That's really neither here nor there, but ...
I don't see how that follows from what I said. It just implies that that particular artefact is probably not a work of art (and something produced tod...
I don't see why. I have not claimed that necessarily there are no necessary truths, only that there are not in fact any. None of that follows. First, ...
By our reason. We cannot know something by instinct, for unless or until that belief which was formed by instinct is ratified by reason is does not co...
Yes. That's why it isn't disputable. The idea of art is the idea of art, and art itself is that which answers to the idea. But although that sounds tr...
Are you an expert critical thinker? I don't think you are, because you don't seem to know what follows from what. So, once more, your views on what do...
Yes it does. It's true by definition. Art is that which answers to the concept of art. It is exactly what that concept is the concept of that is the m...
No, I mean the concept of art. A concept is an idea. The 'idea' of art, then. We have the concept - that is, it is in our intellectual warehouse, as i...
What is it considered to be? Some kind of a fertility symbol, yes? Not a work of art. Perhaps it is a work of art - perhaps there's a degree of ambigu...
That's not equivalent to what I said. Persons, minds, create art. But we're talking about what it takes for something to qualify. What I am saying is ...
Well, I expect they'd think it was a urinal and not a work of art. Thus we should take seriously that it is not a work of art. Artists create art, but...
They're not 'defining' art. If you want a definition for art, here's one: art is cheese and cheese is art. There. That's obviously a false definition,...
Exactly. Take a moment to reflect on what that actually means. You know when someone says "I'm not a racist, but...." We all now know that we're about...
It would lessen it, but it is not guaranteed to cancel it altogether. The claim is not, then, that if an object passes this test it is necessarily a p...
By your own admission, you have no expertise whatsoever in metaphysics. And by your own admission, you probably have below average intelligence. Given...
You want an example of what, dementix? An example of a metaphysician making a metaphysical claim about God's existence that isn't a metaphysical claim...
No, it is because they don't have a brain and minds seem to be associated with brains, not mere cells. For example there seems to be precisely one min...
er, no it doesn't. You're not getting this are you. You don't need to 'remind' me. Why don't you remember what you admitted in the last post. To make ...
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