To the White House, she contributed nothing practical except the taste of a cultivated society woman in its hugely expensive refurbishment.
Then the long-run consensus of such persons is the practical standard of taste and the means of justifying judgments about beauty.
For a long time, I thought that Lazar had a taste for practical jokes, and that my reintroduction to Merle after twenty years might be one, but I eventually came to the conclusion that it was part of his innocence.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, October 1, 1932 P. 11 The purchase of a sports plane, far from curing him of his taste for practical jokes, only added to a certain gentleman's repertory.
It can express a practical obligation: given your tastes you'd be remiss if you didn't eat a piece.
The diversity of students' musical tastes poses practical challenges, for instance.
But if the judgment of taste is not practical, then the attitude we bear toward its object is presumably also not practical: when we judge an object aesthetically we are unconcerned with whether and how it may further our practical aims.
That is what Kant means when he says that the judgment of taste is not practical but rather "merely contemplative" (Kant 1790, 95).
Like fellow YC startup Scoutzie, the Tastemaker marketplace functions by allowing users to submit a request for proposal, answering questions about their personal taste, budget and practical concerns like room dimensions.
Thanks to the MITACS program, graduate students and postdocs in the mathematical sciences are getting a chance to apply their knowledge within the corporate world, and corporations are getting a taste of the practical value of applied mathematics.
