Goodman's account of art requires that a work be governed by a symbol system with repleteness and syntactic density; running qua running operates in a different symbol system than dance.

?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.

No one has weighed in yet. Be the first to share reasons for or against this statement.

Goodman(the statement opens with his name): Nelson Goodman was a 20th-century philosopher who created a famous puzzle about how we learn from experience and make predictions based on patterns we've observed.
Symbol system(Examples include language, mathematical notation, or musical scores.): A set of signs or marks (like letters, numbers, or musical notes) that work together according to rules to represent and communicate meaning.
Syntactic density(a property of how art works): The quality of having many small, distinct differences that matter; in art, it means tiny changes in color, shape, or sound can change the meaning significantly.
qua(Christological reduplicative strategy for handling incompatible properties): A grammatical modifier meaning 'with respect to' or 'in virtue of', used to index a predication to a specific nature.

Based on where you are in your exploration