New Waves in Musical Ontology

Kania, Andrew

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“…A similar triadthough dealing with abstracta, rather than typesis put forward by Cameron (2008) and Kania (2008). As Mag Uidhir (2013) points out, "should any general characterisation of abstracta have a plausible claim to being standardly held, it clearly must be that abstracta are non-causal (especially given the standard, broad characterisation of concreta as causally efficacious material inhabitants of space-time)" (10).…”

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Paraphrasability and the Causal Status of Types

Aliyev

2022

Theoria

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Some are attracted to the view that repeatable artworks, such as films, novels, plays, symphonies, photographs, and the like, are a particular kind of abstractanamely, types. This view, however, is not unproblematic. One of the most serious problems it faces is the so-called "creation problem." The core idea behind this problem is that, on the one hand, it seems reasonable to accept the claims that (1) repeatable artworks are types, (2) types cannot be created, and (3) repeatable artworks are created, but, on the other hand, these claims form an inconsistent triad. A popular solution to the creation problem is that (2) can be rejected because the justification for ( 2) is based on a false assumptionthat no type can stand in causal relations. Although this solution looks promising, it can be accepted only if its proponent can refute what might be called the "paraphrasability argument." On this argument, types are not to be regarded as capable of standing in causal relations because any discourse implying the causality of types should be paraphrased into discourse that does not imply this. My aim in this essay is to show that there is good reason to consider the paraphrasability argument sound and, hence, that the foregoing solution to the creation problem fails. K E Y W O R D Screation of types, creation problem, ontological parsimony, ontology of art, paraphrase, repeatable artworks, types as relata of causal relations | INTRODUCTIONWhat fundamental sort of entities are novels, films, poems, plays, cast sculptures, symphonies, etchings, photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other repeatable artworksthat is, artworks that have or can have multiple instances? 1 According to what might be called "typeabstractionism," such artworks are types, broadly construed: "(pure) types" (Currie (1989), 1 An instance of an artwork is, roughly, an entity that makes manifest to a receiver sufficiently many properties that must be experienced to fully appreciate this work. Examples of instances are poetic declamations, theatrical and musical performances, (physical) sculptures, film screenings, and photographic prints. For a detailed account of the notion of an instance of an artwork, see, e. g., Davies (2010Davies ( , 2012Davies ( , 2015.

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Paraphrasability and the Causal Status of Types

Aliyev

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Theoria

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From the document to the work: Ontological reflections on the preservation and restoration of musical artefacts

Arbo¹

2018

Journal of New Music Research

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The article highlights the interest of an ontological analysis in addressing issues related to the preservation and restoration of musical works. The latter are considered as artefacts that function aesthetically. Such entities depend on the inscription of a trace, whose durability can be provided in three ways: oral, written and phonographic. The recording can either document a work (or a musical event) or constitute it. A careful consideration of this alternative, in relation to the way in which the artefact was conceived, is useful when one chooses appropriate approaches to the preservation and restoration of musical works.

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Type Realism Reconsidered

Irmak

2023

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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Realism about types is the view that types are abstract and repeatable objects. Although type realists seem to agree that types, unlike properties, are objects in their own right, they argue that there is a metaphysically intimate tie between the existence conditions of types and properties. In particular, most type realists believe that types are, in a certain sense, determined by the properties that underlie them. I argue that this is a mistake, especially for those type realists who believe that social and cultural types such as works of music and fiction or words are artifacts. I offer an alternative version of type realism where social and cultural types are dependent objects that should be understood in analogy with concrete artifacts.

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New Waves in Musical Ontology

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Paraphrasability and the Causal Status of Types

Paraphrasability and the Causal Status of Types

From the document to the work: Ontological reflections on the preservation and restoration of musical artefacts

Type Realism Reconsidered

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