The tree fern I often used as an example died. Damn pity. It was neither a tree nor a fern. I, and most other folk, cannot give you a definition, a se...
So is "the chap who wrote Hamlet" a definition of Shakespeare? If identity statements are true, then they are necessarily true. So not all definitions...
@"Jamal", Why bother with Kant. It's confused waffle. Quine and Kripke provide firmer and more fertile ground. But to go there, we need to differentia...
Actually it was this specific incident that was the topic. Provenance and authorship are not the same as tradition, but are part of the story of an ar...
Art uses the root "ar-", as in articulate, armour, arm, article... "to fit together". Artisans and artists fit stuff together. Artisans work with meta...
The question then is what more is involved, and what Adorno's definition shows us. Is a headpiece, of feathers and gum, prepared with care for one's o...
The analysis of existence that followed from the work of Frege and Russell is to my eye far better than that given by the Germans. I would not be happ...
I had a brief chat with an economist yesterday about art. There is an amusing fiasco emerging in Australia's art business in which it seems that white...
Fair question. I'm a fan of Austin, who's method involves the close and detailed analysis of the terms of our language, the "tools of trade"; I use th...
But I came to that conclusion through consideration of Wittgenstein's meaning as use; the (meaning of the) concept is the way it is used. We check und...
SO the definition of Art that gave yesterday works by urging one to re-think what is involved in the concept of art. No doubt it has some impact when ...
Taking a concept and analysing it is most of the work of philosophy. Stipulating a definition and insisting that it not be questioned mitigates agains...
Presumably, and hopefully, doing some decent conceptual analysis. You know, philosophising. It's a bit of a puzzle to me that folk do not understand t...
Alternately, how the question is framed often is the issue. Folk are prone to uncritical acceptance of a naive or pre-philosophical position. It might...
Nice. I don't see that these two are not incompatible. Of course, the other way to write a dictionary is on historical principles; as an account of th...
Kale, again. Despite being surrounded by bullshit, both literal and figurative, kale can have a place on the plate. Just wash it first. There's more w...
It's more like one of the the hoi polloi, not the chair, attempting to adjourn the meeting. They can say the words but the words are, so to speak, a l...
good point. So if we are to get to page five I’ll either have to say that art was never spiritual or that adjourning a meeting is a lie. So I’ll go fo...
doesn’t adjourning a meeting require spirits and Demons, or at least ghosts in the machine? It’s not like turning off a tap; nothing physical happens ...
so I must be one of the untrue Scotsmen who do not understand art. Teach me; how else can naming a ship be distinguished from magic, other than by the...
Only if you follow the recent obsession with centenarian German existentialism. I had Davidson's more recent jokes in mind. Another reason definitions...
And as soon as you stipulate that, I want an artwork that doesn't teach you to see the world anew. The very act of stipulating the rule enables its br...
My only complaint here would be if Adorno - and i am happy to have him copying my ideas - were to restrict magic to art. Here's some more magic. I go ...
A rough thought experiment: I grow a blob of suitable cells in a petri dish so that a muscle twitches if and only if a red blotch is place over it. Ar...
Just on a quick glance, there do seem to be multiple problems being left undressed hereabouts. Like "How do we tell if someone is conscious?" Basic fi...
Ah, so "lost" as in lost interested, not "lost" as in lost track. If I have it right, McGuiggan claims that Collingwood differentiates the language of...
I'll try to help. The point of the OP of that thread was a fairly simple one, that definitions do not, in a very important sense, give us meaning. The...
May I ask, why do you think it lost you? I surmise that you didn't think it wrong, as such. The notion of core meanings with vast penumbras, and of po...
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