12 ideas
| 18151 | Could we replace sets by the open sentences that define them? [Chihara, by Bostock] |
| 22687 | Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut] |
| 22686 | Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut] |
| 22690 | 'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut] |
| 22684 | Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut] |
| 22689 | If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut] |
| 22685 | Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut] |
| 6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
| 6616 | Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis] |
| 6615 | A species requires a genus, and its essence includes the essence of the genus [Ellis] |
| 6614 | A hierarchy of natural kinds is elaborate ontology, but needed to explain natural laws [Ellis] |
| 6612 | Without general principles, we couldn't predict the behaviour of dispositional properties [Ellis] |