Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Public Text and Common Reader' and 'On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense'

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7 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind
20363 Leaves are unequal, but we form the concept 'leaf' by discarding their individual differences [Nietzsche]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 3. Taste
12163 Literary meaning emerges in comparisons, and tradition shows which comparisons are relevant [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language
12162 In literature, word replacement changes literary meaning [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 1. Artistic Intentions
12159 Without intentions we can't perceive sculpture, but that is not the whole story [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 3. Artistic Representation
12160 In aesthetic interest, even what is true is treated as though it were not [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 5. Objectivism in Art
12161 We can be objective about conventions, but love of art is needed to understand its traditions [Scruton]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue
467 A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion]