9 ideas
19489 | For me, fictions are internally true, without a significant internal or external truth-value [Yablo] |
19490 | Make-believe can help us to reason about facts and scientific procedures [Yablo] |
19491 | 'The clouds are angry' can only mean '...if one were attributing emotions to clouds' [Yablo] |
23888 | Knowledge is beyond question, as an unavoidable component of thinking [Weil] |
20416 | By 1790 aestheticians were mainly trying to explain individual artistic genius [Kemp] |
23887 | Art (like philosophy) establishes a relation between world and self, and between oneself and others [Weil] |
20417 | Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both) [Kemp] |
20419 | We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it [Kemp] |
20418 | The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means [Kemp] |