COGNITIVE DISSONANTICS

The concept of “beauty” was invented so humans could argue about art and still sound deep.

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The concept of beauty has been discussed since ancient times by philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, and later in the field of aesthetics. It was not invented for arguing about art, though people do debate it.

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