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Artistic Verisimilitude (I)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1962

J. P. Day
J. P. Day
Affiliation:
University of Keele.
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Some affirm, but others deny, that works of fine art, or at any rate certain sorts of them, should be true (T) or probable (P). This is the question which I investigate in the present essay. It has been debated by philosophers from Plato on, and much can still be learnt from earlier writers, particularly Aristotle. But I have found some recent discussions especially helpful; namely, what Strawson and Hart say about and in connexion with presupposition; Hospers' and Harris' remarks about truth-to and plausibility respectively; and Beardsley's treatment of these matters in his admirable survey of the problems of aesthetics.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , September 1962 , pp. 163 - 187
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1962

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(B)Beardsley, M. C., Aesthetics (New York, 1958).Google Scholar
(C)Bradley, A. C., Shakespearean Tragedy, (Mac Millan, London, 1957).Google Scholar
(T)Mill, J. S., Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties; Dissertations and Discussions, Vol. 1 (London, 1859).Google Scholar