And you talk to me about Platonism...
What is art, then? A component of all imaginable universes? Divine aesthetics made manifest? Something other than accident? This would make the over-/underrated distinction a lot simpler, I have to admit.
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― Josh, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Some perceive more connections than others, yes, but no correct approach could lead to results different from theirs, and so none of what they conclude depends on them as individuals.
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― david h(owie), Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
You still miss the point. Of course it is possible for different people to choose different methods, to make missteps, to reach dead- ends. The validity of each step, however--whether or not one perceives it--is determined by the conclusions it implies, not by individual choice.
An artist may do more or less exactly what another has done, but it may still be said that "he just can't do it like [predecessor]". Can you imagine hearing, when someone independently proves the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, "nice, but he's no Karl Friedrich"??
haha crux's position is the sort of position it's usually ME taking!!
Uh, just the fact that this concept doesn't figure in any artistic achievement and only provisionally in other scientific achievements, which suggests that they should be evaluated differently from achievements in which it is nearly the only thing of importance.
however if it will make you happier, whatever it is you saying is totally brilliantly correct and amazingly valid and the route you got there is immensly more/less elegant than everyone's else, were they ever to think this, whatever it is: no mathematician is in any sense better than any other mathematician, or indeed any non-mathematician hurrah!
you in particular are rated exactly correctly: your prize is the chance to study some mathematics at last, or to ignore it, or something equivalent
Thank you.
― Skottie, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:29 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:42 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Skottie, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:44 (twenty years ago) link
America has no need for a Robbie Williams whatsoever, though that "Millenium" song was kinda cute.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:52 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:56 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:57 (twenty years ago) link
Only by technicality.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:00 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:04 (twenty years ago) link
Especially since they have a Timberlake (sadly, this is not an example of trading up).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:07 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Amazing Randy (Amazing Randy), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:14 (twenty years ago) link
Back to thread: Johnathan Franzen. Amanda Hesser/Tad Friend combo. Zadie Smith. The entire McSweeney's crew.
― quincie, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
― H., Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:35 (twenty years ago) link
So also in that category: Deleuze & Guttari
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link