a score is not a reduction since it is notational. if one were to hold such a view it is of the same level of stupidity of those who think sentences are noises. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Eric <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> the Tenth as a W3.3 object from any attempt to embody this object by > W1 means - say by reducing it to a "score" or by performance. > > > REDUCING? This is what I do not understand. How does the musical score > constitute a reduction? There is a primary experience, that of DS > composing the symphony, but how can the score (or for that matter a > performance) be "a reduction"? > > I'm with Nagel. Materialist physical reductionism is almost certainly > wrong: wrong as science; wrong as philosophy. It is our current error, a > hidden religion inside science, especially as it is presented to > laypeople. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > -- palma, etheKwini, KZN palma cell phone is 0762362391 *only when in Europe*: inst. J. Nicod 29 rue d'Ulm f-75005 paris france