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Art and Knowledge by James O. Young

Bob Sharpe takes issue with James Young’s theory about art.

We think a philosophical theory is extinct, buried under counterexamples, when all of a sudden it reappears in a somewhat transmuted form. James O. Young revives an old idea, most famously encapsulated in the ancient dictum about pleasing and instructing: he argues that all art works possess cognitive value in addition to hedonistic value. They do this by representing, and the characteristic form of representation in the arts is illustration. Illustration is not the same as exemplification.

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