You are not talking about critical judgment (self- reflective thought ) or even taste but conditioning - you seem to believe everything requires an action - you reduce things to the simple equation of not a then b, rather than what might a represent as a proposition and what might b represent - and are a nd b mutually exclusive of one another - if not what do they share - in other words concept thinking and critical judgment are meant to undo the effects of instrumentality and conditioning
On 7/8/09 1:19 AM, "Michael Brady" <[email protected]> wrote: If you see a pile of leaves in the middle of a gallery, you are already prepared to see them as an artwork installed in the room--your a priori judgment. But if you see a similar pile of leaves on the sidewalk outside the museum or gallery, you may well think of them as just plain ol' leaves, and sweep them away. Truth conditions: are they "really are just a pile of leaves" to be sweept away, or are they "not just a pile of leaves, but something else," to be viewed differently.? --
