Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[Whateverist]

@Whatevs.

Aren't we simply discussing the value we might place on whatever science could tell us about art, the different subjective meanings individuals might take any given work to represent, above?  We don't seem to be discussing a subject that science -can't- tell us something about.  I think we both agree that in some sense neither of us gives a shit what science might have to say about art,  we both agree that science cannot replace art.  Neither of these things, though, make art immune to science.

Yeah, I think so.  My point isn't that there is nothing for science to study in the field of art.  I'm just saying science can't replace it without loss.  In that sense, the world of ideas is larger than science.  Science is like Texas/Alaska kind of huge in there, it just isn't the whole kit and caboodle.