How interesting the statement "tout y touche"!?Everything touching, everything related.?I wonder if Piaget might have seen that art involves what the Scholastics called the "transcendentals", the super-universal concepts or "notions" that, unlike other concepts, have content which somehow leaves nothing out and thus could can be applied to everything, unlike garden-variety concepts always prescind differences.?The transcendentals (being, one, good, truth, beauty) gave the Scholastics a lot a trouble -- they're extremely hard to fit into a system of logic and ordinary predication.?I think that is why the Scholastics really didn't develop any great aesthetic system -- they didn't analyze the basic notions of unity and beauty very well and couldn't do much with them.?
The metaphysics and logic of the transcendentals needs a lot of attention, if logic is relevant to them at all.?With those notions well analyzed, then maybe the psychologists can start to look at how we come to know them and what we do with them.
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