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Quasi-Aesthetic Appraisals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

R. Harré
R. Harré
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
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IN the right circumstances and the right frame of mind we are prepared to make aesthetic appraisals of almost anything, from hills, cottages and cars, to symphonies, people and poems. My problem is to try and set a boundary in at least one direction to the catholicity of this kind of judgement. I want to argue that when we use a word from our aesthetic vocabulary for appraising a theory in science or a proof in mathematics we are not properly to be described as making an aesthetic appraisal, though there are close parallels with our normal use of these words.

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Philosophy , Volume 33 , Issue 125 , April 1958 , pp. 132 - 137
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1958

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