From: Sara Trevisan
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Since "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty" was not intended as a
tautology (no matter who the speaker is), the problem is just to understand
which is the hyponym and which is the hypernym -- that is, is Beauty a part of
Truth, or vice versa?
[Peter
Montgomery] ===========================
Perhaps from the 17th Century ov which Eliot sometimes put on,
one
culd see it in a different way:
It is a metaphysical conceit insofar as it makes a radical leap
that
is not easily explainable by logic. On the other hand it lacks
the
immediacy of the odour of a rose, because, weirdly enough for
a
statement involving beauty, it does not involve the
senses.
Of course the world of Plationic, dvine ideas by definiion
transcends the senses to a condition not of slow
rotation
suggestng permanence, but of actual permanence
itself,
to answer the queston how much DOES a Grecian
urn?
I'm with yu Ken, although I could believe you wouldn't
want
it known.
Cheers,
Peter