Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!pyramid!ucat!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: poetry and philosophy, beauty a Message-ID: <755@scc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 22:32:02 EDT Article-I.D.: scc.755 Posted: Sun Oct 5 22:32:02 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 09:47:22 EDT References: <747@ihlpf.UUCP> <117400086@inmet> Organization: Don Steiny Software Lines: 18 > > NO. Common usage recognizes intrinsic beauty as well as beauty- > to-somebody. True, but this is a mistake. Language can play tricks. Just because we use words in that way does not mean that that is the most useful way to use them. > > Beauty is no more subjective than truth. > Truth is completely subjective. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny @ Don Steiny Software 109 Torrey Pine Terrace Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 (408) 425-0382