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Definition:
The phrase "affective fallacy" is a 20th century concept used in the arts and literary criticism to refer to the idea, judged mistaken, that the value
of piece of art or work of literature is either entirely or at least largely dependent upon the emotional effect it has on an
audience (or reader). According to W K. Wimsatt and M. C. Beardsley, it is the "confusion between the poem and its result
(what it is and what it does)."
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
