Coleridge’s principle and the difference between scientific and literary criticism
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2025-02-21
Summary:
Katherine Rundell quotes Samuel Taylor Coleridge writing “his central Principle of Criticism”: never to lose an opportunity of reasoning against the head-dimming, heart-damping principle of judging a work by its defects, not its beauties. Every work must have the former … Continue reading →