Klarinet Archive - Posting 000435.txt from 2002/07

From: w8wright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Orca song
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:08:35 -0400

<><> Kent Krive wrote:
Just because "All A are B" it is not necessarily the case that "All B
are A." In other words, just because "All music is sound ordered in
time," it is not necessarily the case that "All sound ordered in time is
music."

This is true, but it misses the point that some of us are trying to
make.

A "definition" is not simply "all A are B". A satisfactory definition
also excludes cases where "B is not A".

Therefore it's not correct to say that Stravinsky's statement was a
_definition_. Rather, it was a comment about a property of music.

Most people would agree that Stravinsky's comment is accurate. It's
not a definition, however. ....and that's all that some of us are
pointing out.

Cheers,
Bill

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