Sappho’s Alleged Proof of Aesthetic Relativity

Authors

  • Harold Zellner

Abstract

Fr.16 employs an argument for the relativity of aesthetic evaluations that is most fruitfully interpreted as an example of "Inference to the Best Explanation," a non-deductive form of reasoning of which many ancient and modern arguments for relativism are also instances.

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Published

2007-09-26

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Vol. 47 No. 3 (2007)

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