Frances to Derek... The group or groups making determinations must be relevant to the issue of persons or peoples at hand. The casual buddies of a learned aesthete for example do not make a good group of relevant experts. The single group as well as the sole person can of course also be wrong. It then falls to better or bigger or other groups to agree. The determination of Nazi Germany as being wrong by a union of nations is a recent example of this. If reliance on the group to find what may be good fails as a valid process, then some other process must be sought, and none seems viable given the current state of human epistemic evolution.
Derek wrote... So if I admire a novel, piece of music, or painting and think it is great art and all my 'buddies' don't, I am wrong- if not mentally disturbed??
