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All the ideas for 'poems', '72: Against Stoics on common Conceptions' and 'Representation in Music'

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5 ideas

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

12168

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]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

5974	People report seeing through rocks, or over the horizon, or impossibly small works [Plutarch]