Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'poems', 'Replies to Critics' and 'Representation in Music'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

18702

Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling [Davidson]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

12167

Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language

12166

If music refers to love, it contains no predication, so it is expression, not language [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / a. Music

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Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]