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I like science as the orientation toward the creation of knowledge and art as the orientation toward the creation of affects [0]. [0] OED 5b: "A feeling or sub
by gglitch 8y ago
I like science as the orientation toward the creation of knowledge and art as the orientation toward the creation of affects [0].
[0] OED 5b: "A feeling or subjective experience accompanying a thought or action or occurring in response to a stimulus; an emotion, a mood."
- rusk 8y agoYour understanding is more in line with OP You must get a twinge of dissonance whenever people mention Knuth. If dictionaries were the arbiters of all knowledge we wouldn’t need encyclopaedias /s
- gglitch 8y agoI think I know why you say that, but I didn't communicate that something can't be equally oriented toward both knowledge and affect; in fact I'd say that's exactly what people are experiencing when they characterize a theorem, equation, proof, or algorithm as "elegant." And I'm not calling the OED an "arbiter of all knowledge," I'm merely making sure my eccentric use of "affect," isn't being taken as a mistaken "effect."
- rusk 8y agoCouldn’t you have just said emotion then? I mean perhaps you would lose some precision but if you have to use a dictionary maybe that precision is lost anyway?