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Full Idea
Scruton describes beauty in terms of the sense of 'fittingness'. …Another way to put this is that we find things beautiful at the moment we realise that they contain patterns that will allow lots of detail to be reconciled or predicted.
Gist of Idea
Beauty is fittingness, of details uniting within a pattern
Source
Tom Cochrane (The Aesthetic Value of the World [2021], 2.5)
Book Ref
Cochrane,Tom: 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' [OUP 2021], p.42
A Reaction
[Scruton 2009 Ch.4] I don't think this explains my love of some particular turn of phrase in Bach, or some startling metaphor from Shakespeare. Pinning down the essence of beauty looks a doomed project to me. Aesthetics over-emphasises painting.