[baro-nite]

So you can define art with a distinct definition that takes all photographs and filters the art from the not that meets the criteria for art by all people simply by you personally observing each?

Right, that sounds exactly like what I said. Let's see, now what happened to the post where I said that?

[mee]

Right, that sounds exactly like what I said. Let's see, now what happened to the post where I said that?

here:

Only in the Humpty Dumpty theory of language:

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

[baro-nite]

here:

This was a response to the earlier statement, or quote, "art is what you say it is". Art is indeed an elusive concept, hence this lengthy and interesting discussion, but if "art is what you say it is" then there's nothing to discuss and the word is meaningless. That's why I brought in Humpty Dumpty. Somehow from this you have managed to attribute to me a claim to have some kind of universal and infallible definition of art. Show me where I claimed, or even implied, anything of the sort.