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Definition:
A synecdoche (Greek for "understanding one thing with another") is a type of trope in which some part represents the whole (like a hand
being used in place of an entire person) or a whole representing just a part (using the
word "law" to represent a single police officer). The use of a synecdoche is common in
movies, for example when just the hands or feet of someone is shown on screen in order to
delay informing the audience of just who it is.
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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?
