Much of it is an extension of Symbolist poetics that posit a realm beyond matter and our immediate sense experience that art and the artist attempt to reveal and express 7.
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For Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten aesthetics is the science of the sense experiences, a younger sister of logic, and beauty is thus the most perfect kind of knowledge that sense experience can have.
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For Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten aesthetics is the science of the sense experiences, a younger sister of logic, and beauty is thus the most perfect kind of knowledge that sense experience can have.
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This led to his most influential contribution to metaphysics : the abandonment of the quest to try to know the world as it is " in itself " independent of sense experience.
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We must first judge how human reason works, and within what limits, so that we can afterwards correctly apply it to sense experience and determine whether it can be applied at all to metaphysical objects.
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Drawing on an Aristotelian distinction between knowledge and insight Groarke argues that sense experience can in cases give insight into the fundamental nature of a thing in a way that grounds knowledge of the universal.
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The representationalist does not imply that when a person refers to the Eiffel Tower, they are referring to their sense experience, and when another person refers to the Tower, they are referring to their sense experience.
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The problem that Hume identified was that basic principles such as causality cannot be derived from sense experience only : experience shows only that one event regularly succeeds another, not that it is caused by it.
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The representationalist does not imply that when a person refers to the Eiffel Tower, they are referring to their sense experience, and when another person refers to the Tower, they are referring to their sense experience.
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For them, painterly immediacy is ultimate reality : pure sensuous intensity transcendent of ordinary, habitual understanding of the world, which is mediated by socially sanctioned language and banal meanings that force sense experience into their procrustean bed.
