Sunday, April 22, 2012

Wittgenstein and Vermeer

Vermeer

In Rush Rhees' notes on Wittgenstein's Lectures on Aesthetics (I.7), the following passage appears...

"Would it matter if I just said "Yummy!" and rubbed my stomach, instead of saying "This is lovely?"

This remark suggests any number of aesthetic definitions. For example...

"Poetry is yummy language."

 
 

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