Irony - "The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning." You never said you were wise, but you pont...
Thank you for your insightful comments on wisdom. The quality of posts on the forum has gone way down over the past year or longer. I could put up wit...
I agree. In addition, he was one of the top two or three forum members in his understanding of and interest in science. I always felt like I could cou...
I don't think that's what he's saying. To be clear, Collingwood isn't denying that there is a difference between art and craft. He's just saying that ...
Many of us believe the universe just rolls along doing it's universe thing as it has for billions of years or maybe forever. Then here we come to try ...
I was a civil engineer, often a very reductionist discipline. Example - storm sewer design. When you design a sewer system to handle stormwater, i.e. ...
Sorry, but it's been a full day since anyone posted to the Shoutbox. That forces me to post a picture of my son's new dog. /uploads/resized/files/ub/d...
You wrote: To say the examples I showed, which you call craft, don't have much personal meaning seems clearly wrong to me. Clearly the examples I show...
Which brings us back to the original question - how much does skill matter in art? If personal meaning is the standard by which art should be judged, ...
I'm stealing some images from "Beautiful Things," still one of my favorite threads after all these years. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/do...
I do remember them, although I didn't really know what they meant, being 10 or 11. That's why I laugh at the current pushes to impeach Thomas, Kavanau...
There may be a good case to show the US doesn't have separation of church and state, but that isn't it. It's trivial. I think we do a reasonably good ...
Conservatives feel just as strongly and as bitterly about marriage equality as liberals do about abortion. They said the same types of things about th...
I was just trying to get a handle on how most materialist scientists and philosophers saw things before quantum mechanics and other advances were made...
As noted in the OP, the purpose of this discussion was to discuss the absolute presuppositions of a materialist view before 1905, before much of moder...
@"Noble Dust" @"Tom Storm" I really enjoy choral and some orchestral music. The interplay of all those voices, human and otherwise, can be engrossing ...
I used to love short stories. When I was young, there were many books of science fiction stories that I liked. Somewhere along the line I stopped read...
I was thinking some more about this. This from Collingwood: That way of seeing art makes sense to me. Although this is an over-simplification, perhaps...
I have a fairly intense reaction to some daily objects, e.g. those glasses I showed. I think they look beautiful. The pastel colors go well with the t...
I think that's right. That's why I included all three because I don't think any one addressed everything I wanted to question. Yes, this is where I ca...
The distinction you are making between literature and music as art or as craft don't make much sense to me. All music has rules. Maybe different types...
I don't necessarily disagree with either of you, at least broadly, but the Collingwood quote I put in the OP set me thinking. According to him, some o...
This is true, but Fitch's paradox is self-referential. Actually, after looking at it more, including SEP, I'm not sure it is. It seems more like a tau...
I think the prime example for me is jazz. I used to listen to it quite a bit because there were people where I worked who liked it. I could tell it wa...
My children were the people they came to be the minute they were born - temperament and personality. I've talked to a lot of other parents and most ag...
Sorry it took me so long to reply. I think many people can separate what they like from what they respect. There's music I don't especially enjoy list...
I think Collingwood's point is that there are people who don't see them as separate. Or maybe who think there is no art and only craft. Or for whom th...
How is this any different than the liar's sentence: "This sentence is false?" It's a grammatically correct sentence that no one would ever speak in re...
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