aesthetic information

noun

Etymology

Calque of French information esthétique, as used by French social psychologist and philosopher Abraham Moles in his Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958).

Definitions

  1. Sensory information that cannot be articulated in language.

    • Coordinate term: semantic information
    • That is to say that the feeling we experience when we see leaves fluttering in the wind is difficult to translate into a verbal description or a drawing. Aesthetic information has no immediate, direct use.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for aesthetic information. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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