Sentence examples for objects of taste from inspiring English sources
Alexander Gerard asserts that scientific discoveries and philosophical theories are objects of taste (Gerard 1757, 6).
He follows after Gerard in holding that objects of taste are not naturally pleasurable, as Hutcheson had supposed, and so follows after Gerard in holding that objects of taste must acquire their pleasurability from something else that is naturally pleasurable.
But if objects of taste are objects of visual representation, then objects of taste are first and foremost material objects: mountain ranges, waterfalls, sexually attractive bodies are among the paradigms Addison offers (Addison and Steele 1879, no. 412).
Objects of taste must, in other words, acquire their pleasurability, and association is the mechanism by which they do so.
Both regard it as commonplace that objects of intellect may be objects of taste as readily as objects of sight and hearing may be.
In his basic nomenclature, "taste in morals, eloquence, or beauty" assigns either "approbation" or "disapprobation" (or some combination of both) to objects of taste (T, 547n).
Where appropriate, the refined taste of a good critic will weigh the relative contributions of all aspects of the object of taste.
So what are the rules of taste, over and above any rules or principles involved in sound judgment about the object of taste?
Then Kant comes to the "ideal of beauty," or "the highest model, the archetype of taste…in accordance with which [anyone] must judge everything that is an object of taste," a representation of an individual object or particular type of object that is maximally beautiful (CPJ, §17, 5 232).
Whereas Gerard holds association merely to be a vehicle by which pleasurability is transmitted from the naturally pleasurable mental operation to the object of taste, Alison holds association also to be the central mental operation from which pleasurability is transmitted to the object taste.
Humans are good at a lot of things, like producing objects of great taste and beauty.
