Saturday, April 04, 2009

Thought for the day ...

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
- Gabriel Marcel

4 comments:

  1. Hear, hear.

    I've been reading a bit of Marcel again lately, as well as Gaston Bachelard. Philosophers more artists ought to read. They settle some of those questions creatives keep asking, or asking of religious, or asking each other, not always satisfactorily. More poets ought to read Marcel; there's a lot there, for them.

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  2. Hmmm.... not entirely convinced. :\

    Sort of thing written by someone who doesn't, perhaps, know any maths outside of secondary school...

    But I'd still rather listen to music than read my copy of Quine's Mathematical Logic. :)

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  3. Sorry, not convinced in return. I know quite a bit of math beyond secondary-school, and I still agree with Marcel.

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  4. I know quite a lot of maths beyond secondary school.

    So, we can disagree. :)

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