Sentence examples for aesthetic definition from inspiring English sources

(An aesthetic definition and a conventionalist one could simply be conjoined. But that would merely raise, without answering, the fundamental question of the unity or disunity of the class of artworks).

Zangwill's aesthetic definition of art says that something is a work of art if and only if someone had an insight that certain aesthetic properties would be determined by certain nonaesthetic properties, and for this reason the thing was intentionally endowed with the aesthetic properties in virtue of the nonaesthetic properties as envisaged in the insight (Zangwill, 1995).

He didn't fully see that with photography, if it's any good, old aesthetic definitions are beside the point.

Different aesthetic definitions incorporate different views of aesthetic properties and judgments.

Other aesthetic definitions are easily obtained, by grafting on a different account of the aesthetic.

Another definition that combines features of institutional and aesthetic definitions is David Davies'.

Views which combine features of institutional and aesthetic definitions also exist.

Aesthetic definitions have been criticized for being both too narrow and too broad.

Here only aesthetic definitions, which connect art essentially with the aesthetic — aesthetic judgments, experience, or properties – will be considered.

As to the over-inclusiveness of aesthetic definitions, a distinction might be drawn between primary and secondary functions.

(see Dickie 2001, and S. Davies 2006, p. 37) Finally, more radical doubts about aesthetic definitions center on the intelligibility and usefulness of the aesthetic.