When the German philosopher Immanuel Kant puzzled over why nature looks beautiful to us, he considered the case of replicas. Imagine, Kant wrote in the late 1700s, a jovial innkeeper who, for lack of ...

REASONS YOU MIGHT THINK. FLOWERS THAT NEVER WILT NOR FADE. EACH ROOT A SCULPTED ECHO OF NATURE’S GRACE. PEOPLE ARE DELIGHTED BY THEM. THEY’RE DAZZLED BY THEM. THEY REALLY KIND OF FOOL YOUR EYE AND ...