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TopicWhat makes people think that beauty isn't objective?
Seginustemple
02/21/12 12:48:00 AM
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i assume you can determine that romance music has harmonic complexity (once you define what harmonic complexity is, of course). this is an epistemically objective truth,

... only in that the ontological truth of harmonic complexity must be epistemically observed in order to be apparent. Did we seriously let the 'all music and beauty is subjective' crowd win over in here again?

Music is still mostly objective, it just isn't feasibly scalable at this point in time. If music were entirely subjective, any one of you monkeys could sit at a piano, hit random notes at random times and the result would necessarily be equal in quality to any pre-arranged set of notes, or what we call 'music'. But we all know that isn't true, and if you sit at a piano and try to figure out why you will eventually understand that there are objective musical rules.

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