ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the nature of the properties picked out by historical terms. Many of these terms have been said to ascribe aesthetic properties to artworks, and we might as well extend this class to include all the aforementioned terms and the properties they pick out. One possibility is that 'uniformity' and Variety' are themselves used evaluatively, beginning a chain of justification, which could end in an indefinite and various collection of objective properties. The chapter indicates the issue of evaluative principles and the reasons that can support aesthetic judgments. The first is that evaluative aesthetic properties supervene on objective properties of artworks. The second is that objective properties are criteria for evaluative properties. To relativize evaluations to different tastes and leave it at that would be to imply that a typical 1950s rock song is as good as The Marriage of Figaro and that pulp romances are as good as Middle-march.
