Goodman's Aesthetics: Nominalistic or Non-nominalistic?
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In 1956, Nelson Goodman offers a theory of mereological nominalism, according to which there is nothing but concrete individuals. This paper examines the relation of aesthetics to nominalism in Goodmans philosophy and shows that Goodmans aesthetics is a nominalist aesthetics. This claim is justified by exploring Goodmans theories of definition of art, artworks content, and value of art: (1) in the problem of definition, art is defined by some syntactical and semantic features of works of art. But, these features are not essential parts; (2) in the problem of content, in the case of representation of universals and non-existents and in the case of expression, it does not suppose an ontological realm, but world of individuals as the referent of artworks. But, works of art still refer to individuals; (3) in the problem of value, although cognition as artistic value is common among all works of art and their relation is intrinsic, it is not unique to art. Hence, this cannot be an essential function of art. That Goodmans aesthetics does not violate nominalism is itself the result of that Goodmans theory of symbols, in which Goodman solves the aesthetic problems, does not violate nominalism.
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Persian
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Philosophy, Volume:45 Issue: 1, 2017
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15 to 36
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