Klarinet Archive - Posting 000768.txt from 1997/11

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Dan's material apprehensions...
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 00:30:49 -0500

on 11/19/97 8:00 AM, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

>The onus of establishing truth
>to an argument is on the back of s/he who makes the assertion. Those who
>suggest that the argument has logical or physical fallacies are not
>obliged to do anything but point them out.
>
>The most recent case was in Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's last
>theorem. His had errors in it. All that was necessary was to point
>them out. Those who did were not able to right the boat, but they
>pointed out the flaws.
>
>Science has run this way for more than 2 millenia, and your suggestion
>that those who disagree must do the work to establish a scientific
>basis for their disagreement probably can't play the Ginastera
>variations either.

So this means that I don't have to be able to *play* the Ginastera
Variations - just find the note mistakes of those who do?!?! What a gig!

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/