Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'The Tragic Sense of Life' and 'Of the standard of taste'

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4 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude

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Forget about beauty; just concentrate on the virtues of delicacy and discernment admired in critics [Hume, by Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 3. Taste

6608	Strong sense, delicate sentiment, practice, comparisons, and lack of prejudice, are all needed for good taste [Hume]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

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Maybe humans are distinguished from other animals by feelings, rather than reason [Unamuno]