RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
September 30, 2016 at 3:17 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2016 at 3:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
More pedantically, the method still applies regardless of whether people agree with the metrics. I can say (of joyce and literature). "I define x y and z as the mtrics for "best" or "allegorical meaning"". I can then test, the very real and very material body of his work..to see if it satisfies.
Now, someone can come along and say "I don;t think that those are the right metrics", but the method is hardly at fault there. Trying to figure out -why- a given person assigns x y and z as a metric in the first place, equally amenable to the method (and constantly done - it's a profitable industry). The truth of the matter, and I;m sure someone™ could dispute this as well, is that some people think of art as immaterial. They bring it up because this is so obvious to them that they do not feel the need to elaborate or place qualifiers. Thus, materialism means art is out the window. Those people, like usual, are uninformed and uncritical. It's a rationalization meant to buttress their beliefs, not an appraisal of art or materialism.
Now, someone can come along and say "I don;t think that those are the right metrics", but the method is hardly at fault there. Trying to figure out -why- a given person assigns x y and z as a metric in the first place, equally amenable to the method (and constantly done - it's a profitable industry). The truth of the matter, and I;m sure someone™ could dispute this as well, is that some people think of art as immaterial. They bring it up because this is so obvious to them that they do not feel the need to elaborate or place qualifiers. Thus, materialism means art is out the window. Those people, like usual, are uninformed and uncritical. It's a rationalization meant to buttress their beliefs, not an appraisal of art or materialism.
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