Wednesday, January 26, 2022

The experience of art is exemplary in its provision of truths that are inaccessible by scientific methods

 --- Jadranka Skorin-Kapov on Hans-Georg Gadamer's view that “truth” and “method” were at odds with one another, in Skorin-Kapov (2016), The Intertwining of Aesthetics and Ethics: Exceeding of Expectations, Ecstasy, Sublimity, Lexington Books, p. 105, cited in the Wikipedia article on Gadamer (accessed 25 January 2022).

Context:

Gadamer's task in Truth and Method is to legitimate knowledge and truth in human sciences, away from the grip of the natural sciences's explicit and programmable method. The natural sciences employ ... The experience of art is exemplary in its provision of truths that are inaccessible by scientific methods, and this experience is projected to the whole domain of human sciences. Cognition is scientific understanding, based on concepts and scientific methods, and provides verifiable knowledge—but it is only a part of understanding. Understanding is much wider than cognition—it is also interpretation.