> "Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder" Incidentally, I reject this claim. I take beauty to be objectively real and not a subjective reaction to so

> "Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder" Incidentally, I reject this claim. I take beauty to be objectively real and not a subjective reaction to something. The latter I would call taste. (A materialist would of course object because for him, the world is just a bunch of boring atoms bumping into each other, though he will never explain how his mind, just another boring bunch of jostling atoms, is capable of entertaining such subjective delusions and why they can exist in his mind-as-jostling atoms but not in the world "out there", more jostling atoms.) That some variation in opinion exists about what is beautiful (and in what way) does not disprove the claim. Not everyone is equally discerning, some have perverse tastes, etc.