whatever force is absorbed by the machine is deducted from the result.
Herbert's black box of rhetoric.
whatever force is absorbed by the machine is deducted from the result.
Herbert's black box of rhetoric.
composition, even the most poetical, is nothing arts is observed, even during the most polished but a chain of propositions and reasonings
Black boxes unpacked.
It is evident that none of the rules of composi-1 l tion are fixed by reasonings a priori,
They are, in other words, not black boxes.
Standard of Taste
This is the black box that Hume hopes to unpack.
Norms, have long inhabited the architect’s toolset
I want to highlight the useful understanding of norms as tools: this very quickly begins to unpack the black box that is normal. Lemos turns norms" into Morty's car battery*.
SuchshiftingiswhatRamushatedthemost:"Forartsoughttoconsistofsubjectsthatareconstant,perpetual,andunchanging,andtheyshouldconsideronlythoseconceptswhichPlatosaysarearchetypalandeternal"(99)
Ramus wants black boxes that cannot be unpacked (or excavated).