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- the quality of showing a clear and deep understanding of serious matters: the profundity of his remarks [ C usually plural ] a remark or thought that shows, or is intended to show, great understanding: We would sit up all night exchanging profundities.
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Mar 23, 2023 · Ideas. A Philosopher Gets Fed Up With Profundity. There are better ways to communicate. By Agnes Callard. Matt Chase / The Atlantic; source: Getty. March 23, 2023.
- Agnes Callard
- I. Introduction
- II. Kivy on Profundity
- III. Weakening Kivy’s Conditions
- IV. Profundity in Literature
- V. Profundity vs. Clarity
- VI. Profundity as An Experiential Concept
- VII. The Pseudo-Profound
- VIII. Conclusion: Profundity Versus Fluency
It does not happen very often that one short paper opens an entire new subfield of a philosophical discipline. But this is exactly what Peter Kivy’s 1990 paper “The Profundity of Music” achieved. In a couple of years after Kivy’s paper appeared, all philosophers of music, who previously, like Charles Swann in Marcel Proust’s novel (Proust (1913)199...
Kivy points out a tension between the following three claims. First, that there is such a thing as profundity in music. His recurring examples are Beethoven’s late quartets and Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Another helpful example from Stephen Davies (2002) is Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta(1936). His second claim is that “musi...
Many philosophers of music offered ways of weakening Kivy’s conditions in a way that would lead to a more plausible account of profundity in music. This almost always took the form of weakening Kivy’s condition (2). As we have seen, according to Kivy, for a work to be profound, its propositional content needs to be something profound. So, the about...
As we have seen, while Kivy’s analysis of the musically profound is detailed and sophisticated, his remarks on the literary profound, which set up the three conditions on profundity are somewhat quick. I will argue that Kivy’s analysis of literary profundity is mistaken. Literary profundity has nothing to do with the subject matter. And the best wa...
The Musil-, Proust-, and Nietzsche-inspired idea is very simple. How can we tell that the water in a lake is deep? It is deep if we cannot see the bottom of the lake. If you see the bottom of the lake, the water cannot be deep. Same with artworks. A literary or musical composition is profound if it is difficult to see how it works, if it is not cle...
One important feature of this way of thinking about profundity is that it aims to explain when a work is profound in terms of the effect it has on us, not in terms of its semantic properties. In other words, profundity, according to this account is an experiential and not a semantic concept. A helpful way of thinking about the distinction between s...
An important phenomenon in the vicinity is what I will call pseudo-profundity. There are works that want to come across as profound, but they really are not. Some of Damien Hirst’s works would be clear examples. Take his work The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living(1991). It is a vitrine with a tiger shark inside, preserved in form...
In conclusion, I want to draw out an additional advantage of my account of musical profundity. The concept of profundity in general and of musical profundity in particular is difficult to reconcile with the recently popular fluency-centered accounts of aesthetic experience. According to some psychologists, musicologists, vision scientists, and some...
- Bence Nanay
- 2021
5 days ago · Our results suggest that depth and profundity are generally characterized as (i) something with a meaning, (ii) that stimulates cognitive activity, to (iii) promote epistemic progress about (iv)...
5 days ago · Thus, based on these considerations, we can offer a representation of the folk concept of depth as if they were prototype concepts, by bringing together the main features people associate to ‘depth’ and ‘profundity’ to create an image of what it would look like to instantiate all the core component features of ‘depth’ and ‘profundity’ (see Figs. 1 and 2).
Apr 18, 2024 · The word “profundity” carries a weight and significance that sets it apart from everyday vocabulary. It describes a depth of thought, wisdom, and insight that resonates with us on a deeper level. But when is it appropriate to use, and how can we avoid sounding pretentious?
Profundity captures the essence of exploring these complex ideas, emphasizing their significance in grasping the fundamental truths of life and the path to enlightenment. Synonyms: Depth , Insight , Significance , Wisdom , Sagacity , Thoughtfulness
1. Profundity is great intellectual depth and understanding. [...] 2. If you refer to the profundity of a feeling, experience, or change, you mean that it is deep, powerful, or serious. [...] 3. A profundity is a remark that shows great intellectual depth and understanding. [...]
