21 ideas
5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
21907 | We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories [Deleuze, by May] |
20339 | Classes rarely share properties with their members - unlike universals and types [Wollheim] |
5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
20338 | We often treat a type as if it were a sort of token [Wollheim] |
5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
20342 | Interpretation is performance for some arts, and critical for all arts [Wollheim] |
20343 | A love of nature must precede a love of art [Wollheim] |
20348 | A criterion of identity for works of art would be easier than a definition [Wollheim] |
20347 | If beauty needs organisation, then totally simple things can't be beautiful [Wollheim] |
20345 | Some say art must have verbalisable expression, and others say the opposite! [Wollheim] |
20331 | It is claimed that the expressive properties of artworks are non-physical [Wollheim] |
20336 | Style can't be seen directly within a work, but appreciation needs a grasp of style [Wollheim] |
20337 | The traditional view is that knowledge of its genre to essential to appreciating literature [Wollheim] |
20333 | If artworks are not physical objects, they are either ideal entities, or collections of phenomena [Wollheim] |
20334 | The ideal theory says art is an intuition, shaped by a particular process, and presented in public [Wollheim] |
20335 | The ideal theory of art neglects both the audience and the medium employed [Wollheim] |
20340 | A musical performance has virtually the same features as the piece of music [Wollheim] |
20341 | An interpretation adds further properties to the generic piece of music [Wollheim] |
20332 | A drawing only represents Napoleon if the artist intended it to [Wollheim] |
5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |