Constitution and qua objects in the ontology of music
British Journal of Aesthetics 49 (3):203-217 (2009)
| Abstract | Musical Platonists identify musical works with abstract sound structures but this implies that they are not created but only discovered. Jerrold Levinson adapts Platonism to allow for creation by identifying musical works with indicated sound structures. In this paper I explore the similarities between Levinson’s view and Kit Fine’s theory of qua objects. Fine offers the theory of qua objects as an account of.. | |||||||||
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