Well, tough. This is how art works: a consensus emerges among practitioners that some things are better than other things, even though nobody can articulate in

Well, tough. This is how art works: a consensus emerges among practitioners that some things are better than other things, even though nobody can articulate in words just what makes the good things so good, or the bad things bad. The discipline of aesthetics is kind of irrelevant to art and architecture: it doesn't have much useful content, and it's not helpful in judging work. Most artists/architects don't use it in any way. It's just windy philosophizing. The taste of food is similar. If I'm a restaurant critic and I tell you that a certain restaurant is good, you need to have a way of assessing that opinion which doesn't involve requiring it to be written in some kind of positivistic, quantified, apodictic form.