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Comments on Ekkehart Schlicht's "Aestheticism in the Theory of Custom"

Comments on Ekkehart Schlicht's "Aestheticism in the Theory of Custom" Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines Volume 11, Number 4 2001 Article 8 NUMÉRO 4 C. Mantzavinos, Max Plank Project Group Recommended Citation: Mantzavinos, C. (2001) "Comments on Ekkehart Schlicht's "Aestheticism in the Theory of Custom"," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines: Vol. 11: No. 4, Article 8. DOI: 10.2202/1145-6396.1037 ©2001 by Berkeley Electronic Press and IES-Europe. All rights reserved. Mantzavinos: Comments on Ekkehart Schlicht's "Aestheticism in the Theory of Custom" C. Mantzavinos° The thrust of the argument of Schlicht's paper in a recent volume of this journal is that a correct account of rule learning must take into consideration an aesthetic rule-preference or in other words that "rules can be graded not only with respect to their instrumental usefulness, but also with respect to their clarity, straightforwardness, analogy, and ease of perception and reproduction. Some rules are better than others in this sense."1. The position is constructed as a middleground position between "inductivism" and "structuralism" that are found by the author to be untenable. I want to present three general comments regarding the notion of aestheticism. The first deals with a version of sophisticated structuralism that the author misses to deal with in his paper http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines de Gruyter

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Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines Volume 11, Number 4 2001 Article 8 NUMÉRO 4 C. Mantzavinos, Max Plank Project Group Recommended Citation: Mantzavinos, C. (2001) "Comments on Ekkehart Schlicht's "Aestheticism in the Theory of Custom"," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines: Vol. 11: No. 4, Article 8. DOI: 10.2202/1145-6396.1037 ©2001 by Berkeley Electronic Press and IES-Europe. All rights reserved. Mantzavinos: Comments on Ekkehart Schlicht's "Aestheticism in the Theory of Custom" C. Mantzavinos° The thrust of the argument of Schlicht's paper in a recent volume of this journal is that a correct account of rule learning must take into consideration an aesthetic rule-preference or in other words that "rules can be graded not only with respect to their instrumental usefulness, but also with respect to their clarity, straightforwardness, analogy, and ease of perception and reproduction. Some rules are better than others in this sense."1. The position is constructed as a middleground position between "inductivism" and "structuralism" that are found by the author to be untenable. I want to present three general comments regarding the notion of aestheticism. The first deals with a version of sophisticated structuralism that the author misses to deal with in his paper

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