Re: Are computer games art, even to Canadians?
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Art is art in the sense that it is interpreted by the subject in a way that deems it so.
Art is not art by how people catagorize the object in their language system. For example, for me to say "that table is not art, it is just a table", is completely incorrect. "Table" in itself is just a general term for a specific table that is unique.
Due to all objects being unique, and the classifications of them being due to our language necessitating it for the purposes of simplification and consideration, we are no more entitled to say one thing is not art than another. However, as a result of this, we can use that to claim anything is art because we believe it to be so. Because art is an abstract concept, rather than a concrete thing, there is no problem in doing this. X is art as long as I predicate it to be.
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Too easy.
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