Created but not transient : works of art as unchanging and everlasting artifacts

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Based on a structuralist type ontology of works of art, I defend the following theses: 1. Works of art are created, not discovered. 2. Once they are finished, they are not changeable anymore. 3. Once they are finished, they continue to exist everlastingly

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Maria Elisabeth Reicher
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