My description of ‘elegance’ admittedly did invoke agent-dependent concepts like ‘unexpectedly’ short or ‘surprisingly’ general.
I think elegance has to invoke agent-dependent concepts, because I think it’s a composite description, which involves intuitive managing of agents, or descriptions of agents, rather. Intuitively it feels like something to be described as elegant requires “an intent” or a goal—and goal seems like it requires a description which involves some thingy trying to do something—that is met in a way that meets some comparative criterion, that this particular thing that met that particular goal, was somehow different from your expectations.
In otherwords it might not even be possible to define elegance without invoking agent-related concepts. (Or maybe it’s just whatever conception of elegance I had)
I think elegance has to invoke agent-dependent concepts, because I think it’s a composite description, which involves intuitive managing of agents, or descriptions of agents, rather. Intuitively it feels like something to be described as elegant requires “an intent” or a goal—and goal seems like it requires a description which involves some thingy trying to do something—that is met in a way that meets some comparative criterion, that this particular thing that met that particular goal, was somehow different from your expectations.
In otherwords it might not even be possible to define elegance without invoking agent-related concepts. (Or maybe it’s just whatever conception of elegance I had)