(7:25 PM)
on defining things
my roommate is taking philosophy this semester, and is working on a paper with something about Plato's assertion that everything in a certain category shares a common set of characteristics. Our basic discussion is, "define a chair."
a chair is an object. can an object have an intent? a chair is an object that has the intent of being sat on. or, that we intend to sit on. obviously there's more to a chair than that.
"define art"—this one I had a pat answer to: I've been using this as my definition of art for a while, and I'm pretty satisfied with it, though it doesn't encompass everyone's approach to art, it describes what I treat as art: art has to have intent of meaning, and some element of craftsmanship.
