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In 1933 Alfred North Whitehead asserted that certain kinds of human experience ensue when the subjective form of the prehension therein involved is partly dictated by the “qualitative element” in the objective datum (not the initial datum) of that prehension. These “qualitative elements” come with the prehension and are in the objective datum of that prehension.1
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Cf. A. N. Whitehead’s Adventures of Ideas, New York: Free Press, 1967, p. 253.
However, for a challenging compromise, see Morris Weitz’ “The Role of Theory in Aesthetics,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 15: 27–35 (1956), where the suggestion is that we ought to add together all the philosophies of art in the attempt to guide ourselves through the labyrinth of art.
Cf. Paul Lauter’s Theories of Comedy, New York: Anchor Books, 1964, p. xv.
A. N. Whitehead, The Function of Reason, Boston: Beacon Press, 1966, p. 8, (Italics Whiteland’s).
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Smith, J.L. (1971). On the Nature of Ultimate Values in the Fine Arts. In: Aesthetics II. Tulane Studies in Philosophy, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1116-2_7
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