RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
September 30, 2016 at 11:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2016 at 11:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 30, 2016 at 11:06 pm)Whateverist Wrote: I suspect science is in no position to exhaustively answer every question relating to art.Your suspicions have a burden that you might be dis-interested in.
Quote:Beyond the questions you can answer regarding what is or is not the case regarding any particular artist's work there are also questions involving intent and message which I do not think science can answer.It would be interesting to think them up. To imagine what the un-testable would look like. We're notoriously bad at it.
Quote:Of course a scientist can answer them, she just won't need any science to do so. You won't be surprised that I won't offer any scientific evidence for that hypothesis.No, ofc not, but I don't think scientific evidence would be required in the case of your opinions or suspicions, unless we wanted to move them to the fact box. To propose as a fact that some subject is beyond the purview of some method we would have to explain how, in principle...not in current status, the subject in question would be impenetrable -to- that method.
If art is such a subject (or some portion of art), why, in your estimation, is that so (and what portions)? I have no answer to this question, personally...though I do, distinctinctly, allow for the possibility. I assume you do, you have suspicions?
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