You still don't get it, Chuzzlewit. :-(
Or else you are deliberately sidestepping the issues I raised in my post, none of which you have addressed. All you have done is repeat some points on which I agreed with you -- that Art and Science are different, for example -- and some on which I most emphatically disagreed, to the degree that I was reduced to sputtering.
Let me elaborate, briefly, on some observations I made in the first post.
1) Philosophers have been arguing for centuries over the meaning of "objectivity" and "subjectivity." The last I looked, they still were. Yet you write as if "everybody knows" the difference between them. I think that when you are talking about Science vs. Art you need to use different terms: empirical truth vs. experiential truth, perhaps?
2) As to whether Beethoven is superior to hip-hop or not, yes, there are standards. Again, I eschew your word "objective," because you have booby-trapped it by linking it exclusively to scientific method.
For a fuller answer to that question, perhaps you ought to read a work on aesthetics.
Joan
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