Are we saying the same thing? If you refer to Parmenides, the philosopher, you will pick out the possible worlds where Parmenides is a philosopher, bu...
As you say, being a philosopher isn't metaphysically necessary to being Parmenides. Kripke's essentialism refers to Parmenides as a rigid designator. ...
European Romance Languages The Italians and Spanish in their use of "being" are able to distinguish between, as you say, a fundamental characteristic ...
What you say seems sensible, and as I see it may be called the weak Whorfian hypothesis. https://www.britannica.com/science/Whorfian-hypothesis In the...
How about the Italian essere (derived from the Latin esse) and the Italian stare (derived from the Latin stare). Both essere and stare function as cop...
Though the Russian speakers colour chart "How to Choose Paint Colour for Walls" lays out the colours exactly as we English speakers would lay them out...
I don't see the sense in a strong Whorfian hypothesis, where language determines a speaker's perception of the world. It seems that a strong Whorfian ...
For example, English has a word for "blue" that the Russians don't seem to have. It seems in general that English has a larger vocabulary than Russian...
The relationship between category and concept is interesting. It seems that the Russians don't have one word for blue but have one word for pale blue ...
The introduction to the article writes that they are investigating discrimination between colours, not the perception of colours Though of course, in ...
The article "Russian blues reveal effects of language on colour discrimination" is about how people discriminate colours, not about how people perceiv...
Though the experience of pain and the aesthetic experience are both subjective feelings, and both exist in the mind rather than the world. ===========...
Are you saying: 1) Russians don't see light blue and dark blue as shades of the colour blue. I would be surprised if Russians saw colours differently ...
Perhaps we are too far apart on this matter. Replacing "cadmium blue" by "pain" I would have thought that our subjective feeling of pain was independe...
I have never been to Russia, but they seem to have the word ????? What does ????? mean? /uploads/resized/files/3m/b5q4q952u1qdi5an.png https://linguap...
When stung by a wasp, you don't need to know the name "pain" before feeing pain. You feel pain regardless of what it is called. Similarly with seeing ...
Yes. Doesn't everyone. The top two colours have a family resemblance, and as members of the same family are similar but not identical. /uploads/resize...
This "innocence" is common in human cognition. For example, when I look at grass, I don't think to myself, what colour should I see this grass as, sho...
I agree that postmodern art is an opportunity for expression. I think less through the physical object but more through accompanying statements. These...
There are two distinct, separate and independent aspects. On the one hand, there is the object as it exists independent of what one knows about it, an...
/uploads/resized/files/xx/ydksv98asd4hod8g.png I know that these images have an aesthetic and are therefore art without knowing anything about the cul...
Copilot agrees "In Postmodernism, the boundary between the artwork and its accompanying statement is often deliberately blurred." In that event, even ...
Exactly my thoughts. =============================================================================== Though have sufficient interest to have been to t...
Totally agree. As you say "It's pretty easy to say that a cel from a Bugs Bunny cartoon is less 'important' as art than a Rembrandt". There is a hiera...
You are saying that we have an aesthetic experience when we are aware of having a feeling. This feeling may be pleasant, such as drinking coffee, or u...
Yes, that person has to be a member of the pre-existing Artworld, a loose collection of art institutions, artists, critics, curators, art teachers, au...
I agree that aesthetics is more than beauty, and can includes the beauty of a Monet "water lilies" and the ugliness of a Picasso "Guernica". I agree t...
The context of the object is relevant. A pebble on a beach never seen or imagined by anyone cannot be a Postmodern artwork. For someone to take that p...
As it is said "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". An aesthetic may be defined as there being a unity in variety, a pattern in chaos. Such an aesth...
Yes, an object may be both beautiful and utilitarian, such as William Morris wallpaper. But these properties are independent of each other. The beauty...
What is an artwork? A Modernist artwork may be defined as any object real or imagined that has no utilitarian purpose that has been observed or though...
The problem is that Grayson Perry does not seem to give his opinion as to what art is, other than saying what art could be. https://downloads.bbc.co.u...
The question why is a painting not a sculpture is the same kind of question as asking why is a play not a film or why is a cat not a dog. If something...
On the other hand, perhaps artworks need to looked at "properly" if they are to make sense. Today, as a simplification, we can say that there are two ...
Pieter Vermeersch’s (Kortrijk, 1973) artistic research of painting expands beyond the confinement of the canvas. https://www.perrotin.com/artists/Piet...
A simple division is to split paintings into the Modern, artists such as Derain, and the Postmodern, artists such as Cindy Sherman. Typically, Modern ...
As the French say "vive la différence", or rather, as Derrida might have said, "vive le différance". In what way is something that is a painting diffe...
Certainly. In the same way that Braque's "Le Figaro" includes text within its composition. They are both paintings because they are both intended as p...
A photograph is a copy of what exists in the world, and therefore depicts what is necessarily true. A painting is a copy of what could exist in the wo...
The meaning of "a painting" cannot be put into words, either as a definition or a description. The meaning of "a painting" cannot be said but can only...
It doesn't seem random that animals are often aesthetically pleasing. Evolution seems to favour aesthetic solutions. There appears to be a direct anal...
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