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Definition:
Derived from the Greek term for "overshooting" or "excess," a hypberbole is a type of trope
which appears in a broad range of art forms. Hyperbole involves a bold, deliberate exaggeration,
usually for the purpose of making some rhetorical point. The earliest descriptions of
hyperbole can be traced back to Aristotle and Isocrates.
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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?
