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"The arts deal in the particular, the individual and the personal while the sciences deal in the general, the universal and the collective." To what extent does this statement obscure the nature of both areas of knowledge?
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Anna Tichonova AIS Vienna 01.07.2004 Word count: ..... 8. "The arts deal in the particular, the individual and the personal while the sciences deal in the general, the universal and the collective." To what extent does this statement obscure the nature of both areas of knowledge? "All men by nature desire knowledge".1 Metaphysics talks about the fact that the basis of knowledge comes from human manner to enjoy its senses. Feeling is the form of knowledge, which is given to us by nature, since it also exists in animals.2 However, in animals it is linked to direct benefit, while in humans it can simply be related to pleasure, which can be named "aesthetic". Aesthetic delight, which is reached through sensation, is no longer animal instinct, but primal knowledge, which contains the roots of both art and science. Both artistic and scientific knowledge come from accumulation and generalization of experience, which result from memory, a...
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