Yes, and there additional sources of conventions, I suppose we'd call them scientifically objective measurements. But I certainly agree that pragmatics -- related to some particular goals, needs, objectives -- underlay each relation between verity and convention. If this is right, then we have to admit that verity changes as the pragmatics justifying it change. Often this involves a matter of scope or inclusivity, as in science, when new results flow from new objectives, but sometimes it involves a radical shift in how verity is defined. On the everyday level, the role of conventions, even when they seem to contradict commonsense experiences have enormous influence on verity. In regard to art, verity to nature, does not seem to be a dominant issue, unless you subscribe to thinkers like E. Gombrich; instead, the mainstream issue seems to be affective, channeled mainly in expression or how verity affects emotional experience.
WC ----- Original Message ---- From: Mike Mallory <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, May 30, 2011 7:58:20 PM Subject: Re: Pictorial Realism as Verity ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Conger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 4:37 PM Subject: Re: Pictorial Realism as Verity > Thus conventions produce verity. What produces the conventions? > _______________________________________________________ Pragmatic concerns. When an idea, perspective or mental construction works to explain or describe, conventions are adopted as a way of institutionalizing our collective experience. Thus, reliable experience produces conventions. Mike Mallory
