Ways of WorldmakingProvides a workable notion of the kinds of skills and capacities that are central for those who work in the arts. |
Contents
WORDS WORKS WORLDS | 1 |
THE STATUS OF STYLE | 23 |
SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNING QUOTATION | 41 |
WHEN IS ART? | 57 |
A PUZZLE ABOUT PERCEPTION | 71 |
THE FABRICATION OF FACTS | 91 |
ON RIGHTNESS OF RENDERING | 109 |
Common terms and phrases
actual worlds aesthetic allographic alternative analogue Anaximander answer apparent motion argument bleen Cassirer categorization chapter color conceptual art conflict contrast count credibility denote depict describe descriptions discussion distinguishing Don Quixote E. H. Gombrich earth English example exemplified experiments facts false features of style ferent figures frame of reference grue indirect quotation inductive rightness inductive validity Kolers language lines literally or metaphorically matter means mess of molecules Monroe Beardsley motion perception moves Nelson Goodman nominalistic object painting paraphrase pattern perception perhaps philosophy physical pictorial picture points predicates premisses projectible projectible predicates question quotation marks quote relevant kinds replicas representation right versions sample second flash sense shape sometimes sort statements stylistic properties swatch symbolic functioning synonymy tests theory things three sides tion triangles have three true truth ture validity verbal Vernon Howard visual system words world-versions worldmaking wrong