Discernibility or Indiscernibility:Debates on the Ontology of Art
In contemporary philosophy of art,Nelson Goodman is famous for emphasizing the perceptual discernibility of artworks.Arthur Danto,on the contrary,declares that what determines something to be art is rather an atmosphere of theory which cannot be discerned by the senses.In a diametrical opposition to these two philosophers,however,Joseph Margolis points out that Danto and Goodman made the same mistake by identifying the ontological status of artworks within a dichotomous ontological framework.Margolis believes that we need a cultural realism or metaphysics instead which can break that dichotomous framework and therefore deal with the ontology of artworks in an appropriate manner.In this sense,a dialogue between Margolis'theory of art and the traditional Chinese philosophy as well as aesthetics seems to be possible,given that the ontological framework provided by the latter is not dualistic,but either trialistic or monistic.
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