Original paintings and forgeries are not sufficiently the same sort of thing to have many comparable aesthetic qualities. 1) many aesthetic quality predicates have the form of attributives: they are two-place relations between an object and a class of objects and have a semantic account which requires that the object belongs to the class to which it is related; 2) there is no useful semantic class which contains an original and its forgery and 3) therefore these paintings are not to (...) be compared in at least many aesthetic qualities. attention is given to style predicates, which are defined. (shrink)

Three strategic claims are explored sympathetically: (i) aesthetic appreciation centers on what is directly discriminable but it cannot, Relative to art, Be restricted to what is thus discriminable; (ii) a work of art may be aesthetically appreciated for properties that it cannot actually be shown to have; (iii) forgeries may, "qua" forgeries, Exhibit aesthetically valuable properties, Including directly discriminable properties. These issues are pursued critically in the context of the views of goodman, Rudner, Iseminger, Dickie, Lyas, And danto--And of specimen (...) cases drawn from the various arts. (shrink)