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Letters
Letters
The Truth About Music • Impossible Reality • As Lack Of Evidence… • Not Bewitched • Private Language Studies • The Illogical Existence of God • Free To Be Good • Post Post Post • Bile For Bile
The Truth About Music
DEAR EDITOR: Ed Slowik in Issue 59 said: “Scientific judgement deals with facts and ‘truths’ about our world, whereas music only involves, at best, someone’s idea of what constitutes good aural art.” I think that some would rather argue that music reveals different truths from scientific conclusions, or expresses those truths in a different way. This of course reflects the concept of ‘incommensurability’ mentioned earlier in the article. The word ‘truth’ is determined by the paradigm it’s used in: it is not owned solely by the scientists.
BRIAN HARDY
NANTWICH, CHESHIRE
DEAR EDITOR: Edward Slowik presented an intriguing idea in his analogy with Kuhn’s philosophy of science, by the transference of Kuhn’s own paradigm to the classical sonata form.
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