{"id":3431,"date":"2018-09-10T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:03:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:03:34","slug":"is-beauty-a-viable-route-to-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/10\/is-beauty-a-viable-route-to-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Beauty a viable route to the Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3400\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3400\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-13-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"Is Beauty a viable route to the Truth?\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-13-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091018-13.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is Beauty a viable route to the Truth?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It all depends on your definition of &#8220;beauty&#8221; and &#8220;truth&#8221;, and also on where you apply the formula. John Keats&#8217; famous declaration &#8220;Beauty is truth, thruth beauty&#8221; works perfectly well in the realm of poetry. I am not sure it would work flawlessly in areas such as Politics, Social Sciences, Mathematics or Religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all depends on your definition of &#8220;beauty&#8221; and &#8220;truth&#8221;, and also on where you apply the formula. John Keats&#8217; famous declaration &#8220;Beauty is truth, thruth beauty&#8221; works perfectly well in the realm of poetry. I am not sure it would work flawlessly in areas such as Politics, Social Sciences, Mathematics or Religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}