花为啥美丽

                                       

Why are Flowers Beautiful?

- The fact that elegance is a heuristic guide to truth.
- The need to create objective knowledge in order to allow different people to communicate.

There are objective truths in aesthetics. The standard argument that there cannot be is a relic of empiricism. Aesthetic truths are linked to factural ones by explanations, and also because artistic problems can emerge from physical facts and situations. The fact that flowers reliably seem beautiful to human when their designs evolved for an apparently unrelated purpose is evidence that beauty is objective. Those convergent criteria of beauty solve the problem of creating hard-to-forge signals where prior shared knowledge is insufficient to provide them.

                                       

——以下事实：优雅是寻求真理的有益启发。
——为了允许不同的人进行交流而创造客观知识的需要。

美学中有客观真理。流行的说法认为不可能有客观的美，这是经验主义的遗物。美学真理与实际真理有关系，也因为艺术问题可以从物理事实和情况中突现出来。花在人眼里总是美的，而它们的设计是为一个显然与人类无关的目的进化而来，这一事实显示美是客观的。美的趋同标准，在预先的共享知识不足以提供难以伪造的信号时，解决了创造此类信号的问题。

                                       

艺术可以用于多种目的，但艺术价值并不从属于任何其他事物，也不能从任何其他事物中得来.

- from THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY