Sentence examples for aesthetic testimony from inspiring English sources

The claim is challenged by Ginsborg (1998), who defends the subjectivity of taste on the grounds that Kant does not allow that we can make judgments of beauty on the basis of hearsay, but must "subject the object to our own eyes" (§8, 5 215 216); a similar point is made in Hopkins (2001), and there is further discussion of aesthetic testimony in Gorodeisky (2009).

And a girl, on hand to be rescued, fought over and filmed from behind at a low angle as further testimony to the aesthetic power of 3-D.

While the palace serves as a testimony to the aesthetic and intellectual wealth of Islamic art and architecture, its Spanish setting serves an important role in terms of aesthetic and cultural importance.

(Even in cases of testimony, we hold that the aesthetic properties of a thing hold in virtue of nonaesthetic properties that the aesthetic expert knows).

The fact that the National Book Foundation judges "could believe that there is any literary value there or any aesthetic accomplishment or signs of an inventive human intelligence is simply a testimony to their own idiocy".

That they could believe that there is any literary value there or any aesthetic accomplishment or signs of an inventive human intelligence is simply a testimony to their own idiocy".

By Kant's own testimony, the contemplation of nature was for him an intensely aesthetic encounter.

In particular, architectural beliefs encompass judgments of aesthetic properties of the built environment, are norm-governed in some fashion, and may be transmissible via testimony.

Jain, who comes from the Indian middle classes and studied at the California Institute of the Arts, doesn't impose his aesthetic on the factory; he lets the workers speak for themselves, and the film's most wrenching moments come from their testimony.

Manuel gave similar testimony.

They coerce false testimony.