Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Anthropological Studies of Classification' and 'The Artworld'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 1. Categories

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Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen]

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In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism

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Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 6. Art as Institution

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An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it [Danto]