Can one recognize -- appreciate -- the significance of something without knowing what it is? To answer we need to define how we use the words recognize, significance, appreciate, knowing. I'lll venture that the words mean: recognize = visual or verbal naming; significance = qualitative value in a predetermined context; appreciate = valuing the constituent features; knowing = naming and appreciating. These words link together forming a tautology which is ok since they reinforce or amplify one another without precisely duplicating each other. Thus one cannot recognize and appreciate something without also already knowing it. Or, switch the words around in any sequential pairing to obtain the same result or answer. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, June 12, 2012 3:52:02 PM Subject: Re: Scott Fitzgerald quote and "the definition of an artist" or whether they know if it is ethical-definitely should have been there too. -----Original Message----- From: saul ostrow <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 4:45 pm Subject: Re: Scott Fitzgerald quote and "the definition of an artist" addendum accepted - though in the sciences and in the law I think: whether they know if its ethical or not On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:28 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The test of a first rate intelligence is to be able to recognize the > significance of something(a work of art, a strange bug, a > contradiction,)even when they are unsure whether they like it or not or > whether they know what it is. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: saul ostrow <[email protected]> > To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 3:12 pm > Subject: Re: Scott Fitzgerald quote and "the definition of an artist" > > The test of a first rate in intelligence is to be able to recognize the > significance of something (a work of art, music, etc.) even when they > are > unsure whether they like it or not > > -- S a u l O s t r o w *Critical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS 162 West 21 Street NYC, NY 10011
