I was trying to get at the unnecessary turn into neuroscience.
“This painting is beautiful” is a statement about the reaction of the speaker’s brain upon seeing the painting.
Why bring the brain into it? Why not say that “This painting is beautiful” is a statement about the reaction of the speaker? Or, paralleling Good_Burning_Plastic, a statement about the reaction of people generally (at least those raised in etc.)?
“This painting is beautiful” is a statement about the reaction of the speaker
That is what I mean, yes.
Or, paralleling Good_Burning_Plastic, a statement about the reaction of people generally
Whether we define beauty to be the reaction of the speaker, or the reaction of the majority of a certain group of people that are similar to the speaker, is not relevant: in both cases “This painting is beautiful” becomes an empirical truth instead of an “affective” truth.
I was trying to get at the unnecessary turn into neuroscience.
Why bring the brain into it? Why not say that “This painting is beautiful” is a statement about the reaction of the speaker? Or, paralleling Good_Burning_Plastic, a statement about the reaction of people generally (at least those raised in etc.)?
No particular reason.
That is what I mean, yes.
Whether we define beauty to be the reaction of the speaker, or the reaction of the majority of a certain group of people that are similar to the speaker, is not relevant: in both cases “This painting is beautiful” becomes an empirical truth instead of an “affective” truth.