The Logic Off Topic list

Thoughts from the mind of GAmoore@..., 10-11-2001:

>  >>Surely the FRUITS of their labours might be beautiful, but how can
>>>maths be abstact.
>
>Did I say that? I didn't say that. Someone else did.

Did I say you said that?  I don't think so.

>  >>sure music can be described in purely mathematical terms,
>>
>>No, it can't.  The essence of music is it's... "quality"...
>
>In can be described in simple numeric terms - pitch, duration, tempo,
>volume. That is what the other writer was implying,

I know.  I just claimed that a numerical description of music is, in 
essence,not a description at all.  Whether you call such a 
description maths or not is of no consequence to me, since such 
descriptions are pointless to begin with.


tata,
HJ
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