Art-Names and Aesthetic Judgments

Philosophy 36 (136):30 - 48 (1961)
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In an earlier paper I have attempted to show, among other things; that the names of human artifacts and man-devised activities and processes involve in their uses the notion of some end-in-view, function, or use , which partially regulates these uses. In this paper I shall limit myself to a somewhat detailed discussion of one very important class of such common names which requires a separate treatment. I mean art-names

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Art as an essentially contested concept.W. B. Gallie - 1956 - Philosophical Quarterly 6 (23):97-114.

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