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On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:31 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > Why does anyone presume that there's a problem with the contemporary art > world? > > How do you know that anything has been falsely valued. What is a false > value or > a true value? > How can something inherently subjective, like a value, be recognized as > something inherently objective? > > You could have said, "I conceive that the great part of the miseries of > mankind > are brought upon them by the true estimates they have made of the value of > things" and you would not have identified anything necessary regarding the > causes of human misery because the statement is equally valid or invalid > with > the term true as it is with the term false. > wc > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: joseph berg <[email protected]> > To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, April 20, 2012 4:29:10 AM > Subject: "I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are > brought > upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things." > > Does that describe at least part of the problem of the contemporary art > world?
