Man, while my previous post was lost to a computer freeze, I can't help but retype it a day later seeing that this topic is still at the top of the forum (and thus viewable from the index). Well, not all of it, but the relevant parts.
First off, no, science doesn't establish truth, and verifying something with science that you believe to be true doesn't make it any more or less true than it actually is, so if you think something true at first, and it actually is, then it doesn't matter whether or not you employ the scientific method. However, since you don't know that, science is useful in determining whether it'd be appropriate to operate under the assumption that it is--not whether or not it's true, but whether or not it's rational to "believe" it. Or were you stating that the aesthetic sense had by folks such as Bacon can only respond to what's true? If that's the case, then I'd refer you to another dead guy, famous spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle, who to his death was convinced that his good friend Houdini was lying and did, in fact, perform real magic; while it doesn't make a difference to Arthur that after his death historians have discovered the ways in which he executed many of the experiments which were specifically responsible for causing Doyle to believe that the man was an esper, since Arthur is, of course, very much dead, it does make a different to you and me because we see that what a person truly feels, or truly believes they feel, can be very wrong. If it's the case that some people may have a true aesthetic while others have false aesthetics, then it's not a universally applicable skill and can't hope to in the slightest override science as a method for making good judgments. And hey, wouldn't it just be more reasonable to believe that aesthetics are actually just positive mental assocations that are a function of instinct and relate to concepts of symmetry and ideal conditions, since that's pretty much the accepted view last time I checked? Of course, that doesn't account for the goth aesthetic or even a fraction of all aesthetics directly, but indirectly it should, if you do some looking into cognitive science.
Oh, and if you don't mind, can you tell me what the reason behind your capitalization of various nouns is? I've seen mystics do that, but I've never understood quite how it makes sense. If there were a disclaimer attached to such posts, then maybe it would be a way to note that you're qualifying those words in some way, but since there isn't, the only reason I can see to type that way would be that you yourself compose your thoughts better when you're capitalizing those words, but if that's the case and you aren't planning on attaching disclaimers to explain the sense of your capitalizations, you should after you've finished composing the text go back over it and decapitalize all the words, because all it does otherwise is throw off the way to detect the beginnings of sentences employed by lazy people such as myself who aren't very good at seeing dots. lol i have to wake up in five hours =\
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