Magnus-
"A mapping from Inorganic PoVs to Intellectual PoVs" as definition for
language? I'm going to think about this. Do you have anymore material in
line with your essay?
All good,
Rick
At 12:43 AM 11/23/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Rick
>
>Thanks for the feedback. Your question about music
>is quite justified and I've thought about it myself
>once or twice.
>
>You wrote:
>> If
>> I read correctly, when you got down to the end, the book LILA was an
>> IntPoV, supported by the SoPoV of Language and furthermore by the
>> OrganicPoVs of paper and ink. But how would this system
>> apply to say...
>> music? Classical music and jazz may be IntPoVs, but they are
>> not supported
>> by a SoPoV like "language", only Inorganic sound waves.
>
>I'm not so sure that language is absent in classical music
>nor jazz. The bare fact that we can separate the two is an
>indication that they are different in some way. I think that
>way could be called language. I have a quite general definition
>of what a language is, something like: "A mapping from inorganic
>SPoVs to intellectual SPoVs".
>
>Music is actually more than language, it's more dynamic, as are
>all art.
>
> Magnus
>
>
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