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Dark humor and censorship | Connor Kianpour, guest host Stephen Kershnar

Brain in a Vat

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The Importance of Humor in Jokes

The extent to which context matters for determining the aesthetic value of a joke, I think is not maximal. So he responds to Mark and in general, he seemed to argue that we have good reason to believe that his claim at aesthetic value is objective and that humor values are type of aesthetic value. So it's that last claim that I'm not sure I see. But even we think things can be aesthetically appealing, even if they are on some sense of the things like the movies,. The movie that raging bowl for the deer hunter, Bill, it's a little hard to see that those jokes have the sort of sublime aesthetic value that these movies do.

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