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Pain ... Studied analytical Phil at Undergrad and struggled with what's well captured in this joke: "To do maths you need pen, paper and a wastebasket. For ph
by usgroup 10y ago
Pain ...
Studied analytical Phil at Undergrad and struggled with what's well captured in this joke:
"To do maths you need pen, paper and a wastebasket. For philosophy, the pen and paper are enough."
There's just so much noise, even in it's supposedly distilled analytical form. The stuff worth a damn e.g ontology, possible world semantics, epistemological logic, etc quickly finds its way out into another field.
It's there, the value is there, it's just all that damned noise is too.
- crucialfelix 10y agoNoise is just music that hasn't yet been understood, codified and eventually commodified. (I'm joking, but not entirely)
- splawn 10y agoNoise is a sub-genere of music. (I'm serious, but not entirely) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_music
- crucialfelix 10y agoIt's also the name of a very influential book on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise:_The_Political_Economy_of_Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise:_The_Political_Economy_o...