整个20世纪分析美学的核心问题是艺术,而在分析美学内部,艺术的核心问题则是艺术的定义。[1]因此,如何界定艺术,就成为了分析美学的“核心中的核心”问题。几乎每个重要的分析美学家都要在这个问题上给出自己的解答方案,并由于他们不同的定义方式而相互区分开来,然而,他们却囿? The core issue of analytical aesthetics throughout the twentieth century was art, and within analytical aesthetics the core of art was the definition of art. Therefore, how to define art has become the “core of the core” of analytical aesthetics. Almost every major analytical aesthetist has to give his own solutions to the problem and distinguish them from one another because of their different ways of defining them. However, do they?