What are Songs? What is Music? | Philosophy Tube ft. This Exists

Time for some aesthetics and metaphysics! Are songs sets, or abstract objects?
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Recommended Reading:
Amie Thomasson, “The Ontology of Art,” in The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, 2004.
David Lewis, On The Plurality of Worlds.
Lee Walters, “Repeatable Artworks as Created Types,” in The British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 53, 2013
Jerrold Levinson, “What a Musical Work is,” 1990.
Julian Dodd, “Music Works as Eternal Types,” in The British Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 40, 2000.

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