art apreciation and the nature of objectivity

[jarysm]

Standing here waiting for a bus, was thinking to myself and thought I wuld get this down

Comments

[ramik]

This part is the overzealousness of attributing one's opinions to objective reality.

But since you believe in subjective reality, isn't this true in some sense? For you, anyhow?

[jarysm]

Is it? Am I? In what sense?

I would be careful about using "true in some sense" with "subjective reality". They are extremely synonomous in a way that may play hell with their meanings, and how they contribute to the sentence.
Could you elaborate your point?

[ramik]

What I mean is that since you believe in a reality that is affected by belief, the belief that "Book X" or "Song Y" is good has the power to affect that reality in a way that it would not in an objective reality.

[jarysm]

Techbichally yes, but I think a conflict in semantics is going to come up if I don't clarify that in my beliefs:
Belief affects reality in that the belief and reality are synonymous.
That is why reality is subjective.

If your next question is
"If I believe something is good, then doesn't become good?"
Then the answer is yes....but only to you with a limited extension outside of you, as everyone else gets a vote too.
Good, also is a difficult term because it means so much to so many. So when you label something as "good" you can't give it a universal objective label, but your subjective one.

Kinda like when you see something and you think "so and so would like that."