It is because you are so ignorant in living in a tall dark silo that you believe there is no objectivity to 'beauty' other than its typical subjective elements.Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:14 pm 'This painting is beautiful.'
Okay, show us the property that we call beauty. What is beauty? If we listed the properties of this painting, would or could beauty be one of them? If not, what does it mean to say the painting is beautiful? And would it be false to say instead that it's not beautiful? Or that it's ugly? Could it be a fact that the painting is beautiful - or ugly? And would agreement on the use of signs sort that out?
And, by the way - what is the thing or property that is 'being a fact'?
My principle;
All facts are conditioned upon its specific FSK which is objective.
Objectivity of an FSK comes in degrees, say 0 to 100/100.
Therefore there are 'facts of beauty' as conditioned within a human-based beauty FSK.
For example, it is an objective fact that R'Bonney Gabriel is Miss Universe 2022 but that is conditioned upon the human_based-Miss_Universe-FSK.
Do you deny this fact?
'This painting [e.g. Mona Lisa] is beautiful' is an objective fact within certain human-based artistic-FSK. The Mona Lisa came out top in most ranking of 'most beautiful' painting.
However, we cannot take that as absolute but must always conditioned it to a specific human-based artistic-FSK.
Because the Mona Lisa is regarded as the most beautiful painting in an almost Universal state, there must be something [neural correlates] in the brains of those humans that trigger them to rate the Mona Lisa is regarded as the most beautiful painting.
These neural correlates are then the objective facts as qualified to the specific human-based neuro-artistic-FSK.
Note, there are loads of research on the neuroaesthetics basis of beauty from within a specific human-based neuroaesthetics FSK that enable "facts of beauty" to emerge.Beauty is often predominantly measured in terms of positive affective response to aesthetic stimuli, such as paintings, physically attractive faces and natural scenes, or even the activation of a subset of distinct brain regions, such as the orbitofrontal cortex, a frequent criticism of scientific reductionism levied by colleagues in the humanities (Brown & Dissanayake, 2009).
Within the field of neuroaesthetics, however, the aesthetic experience is not merely reduced to the perception and appreciation of beauty however the global affective and cognitive valuation of external stimuli, either for their artistic or other intrinsic qualities. Pearce et al. (2016) effectively distinguish between the cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics, arguing that an appropriate conceptualisation of neuroaesthetics must consider artistic stimuli not merely in aesthetic terms but through a broader context of modulating factors, such as expertise, perceived value, and complex emotional states.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.10 ... -08651-9_4#:~
Problem is you are so rigid and dogmatic that you are stuck with your linguistic-FSK-facts believing they are absolute and independent of human conditions; your sort of 'facts' [just-is, being-so] are actually noumenon, illusory, nothing, empty, meaningless and nonsensical.