Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")
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Is There a Difference Between Beauty and Deformity?
He says two sources of variation, which are not sufficient, indeed, to confound the boundaries of beauty. So we will otof imbounding, but will often serve to produce a different indifference in the degrees of our approbation or blame. And so, like, he's saying, like, this is just going to happen, and there's nothing we can do about it. That's how i read that, yes. But s contrasting this with what might cause variability in our judgments that might have to do with bias. If you like a work of art because your friend made ity, then that differences is, i think he's making an norm of claim. That
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