X-Message-Number: 11537
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 16:17:06 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Aesthetics based on intrinsic features

Thomas Donaldson, #11532: "You are simply repeating what you said before.
That's hardly an argument."

Sorry if I have been over-repetitious. But, to continue another part of our
thread a bit further, I do feel that art, poetry, mathematics, etc. are to
be judged based on intrinsic features rather than how they were produced. In
theory, then, a sculpture could be produced by unconscious nature, though
the chances may be small--or not so small. I remember how, as a child, I
once found a pebble with a peculiar looking face worn into it, a piece of
natural sculpture. When I showed it to my father,  he said, "Well I hope I
never see anybody with a face like that." You can't win them all, as they
say, but he didn't deny that it was a face. 

Mike Perry

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