ABSTRACT
No author attempting an effort as broad as this one can be totally objective in
everyway. Certainly those readers who have hung in with me since the beginning know of
my Gombrichian bias-“that making comes before matching”—and my belief that only through
understanding the phenomenology of the creative act is it possible to know what causes art
to exist. However, I hope my readers also agree that I have at least tried to be objective in
discussing the pros and cons of a number of important issues raised by the aesthetic and
scientific communities. Yet perhaps in doing so I have left readers wondering what
all of this really means. Given the choice of using either a Book I and Book II approach,
as R.G.Collingwood did when he changed his mind in writing Principles of Art, or
writing yet a third work to explain the second, I have elected to write this brief concluding
chapter to identify at least some of the things discovered in the course of pursuing this effort.
