(January 4, 2013 at 8:19 am)Mark 13:13 Wrote: well in some ways you already have limited experience of the transendental when you look at a painting and it stirs something inside of you and you decide its good, someone else looks at it and says its rubbish. Can science be brought to bear on it to prove you are wrong to have those positive feelings about the painting and stop you having those feelings?
Science can be brought to bear on paintings and evaluate what it is about paintings that people find good and stirring. Psychologists can look at these and explain why it is so.
What is your point?
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.