Page 44 - Studio International - May 1971

De Legibus

Naturae

Terry Atkinson and
Michael Baldwin

The 'relation of similarity of experience'
solipsism is not much use in the 'theory of art'
as such and might be odd in a theory concerned
with Theories of Ethics, but it does reveal certain
important properties of 'the work', better, 'the
art work' (i.e. Theories of Ethics etc.). The
point is that 'similarity of experience' as a
primitive relation for art objects would be
absurd. But there are certain objects which
look appropriate for discussion as 'objects'
which are accessible at a quasi-ontological level.
The assumption may be made that this
primitive (etc.) relation is given through a list
of its instances.
It would be consistent with tradition to think
of the list (only mentioning individuals) in
terms of an arrow-diagram geometric
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