I have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and a Master's degree in philosophy. I am currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. I am interested in ethics and epistemology and especially in areas at the intersection of these fields. My favourite philosophical idea is Wittgenstein's notion of family resemblance, which claims that when things appear to be similar, instead of sharing one essential feature, there might be a host of overlapping similarities. The idea really helped me work out definitions better and not get stuck at necessary and sufficient conditions.
Thank you, Alex Impey, for a great question! Let’s first try to understand the question a little better before attempting to answer it. The question involves two deeply loaded concepts: ‘art’ and ‘separation’. I will stick to an intuitive, common-sense understanding of ‘art’ and will take ‘separated’ to mean ‘treated independently’. It is also important […]
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