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THIS book is of the nature of a philosophical experiment; an instructive one, well worked out, but like many experiments less simple than appears at first sight. Prof. Pepper selects (for reasons discussed in another book—“World Hypotheses”, 1942) four types of philosophy as “relatively adequate world hypotheses”, and uses them for the purpose of aesthetic criticism, arguing in terms of concrete examples.
The Basis of Criticism in the Arts
By Prof. Stephen C. Pepper. Pp. xi + 177. (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1945.) 14s. net.
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RITCHIE, A. The Basis of Criticism in the Arts. Nature 158, 253 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158253a0
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