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anomalousness
noun
The state or quality of being anomalous.
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Although its present-day population is 99percentt Muslim, the country has enjoyed uneasy relations with its Arab and Iranian neighbors -- indeed, it is symptomatic of Turkey's anomalousness that its best friend in the region it once ruled has been Israel.
But they are not agreed on the explanation of anomalousness.
There is great plausibility in Hume and Kant's suggestion that what explains the anomalousness of the aesthetic is the first feature of judgments of taste — that judgments of taste are essentially subjective, unlike ordinary empirical judgments about physical, sensory, or semantic properties (Hume 1757, pp. 231 232; Kant 1790, pp. 55 56, pp. 136 142).
Nevertheless the anomalousness of aesthetics is worth thinking about in its own right.
Granting the anomalousness of aesthetic properties, then, we need to explain it.
This kind of anomalousness is one thing, dependence or supervenience another.
If Beardsley insists on a lawlike connection between his three thick substantive aesthetic properties (unity, intensity and complexity) and aesthetic value, he can only do so at the cost of conceding anomalousness between the three thick substantive aesthetic properties and nonaesthetic properties.
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