Klarinet Archive - Posting 000162.txt from 2003/07

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevinfay.home@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Truth and the Philosophy of Music
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 14:35:48 -0400

Tony Pay posted:

<<<There is a very clear intellectual distinction between what is =
*true*,
and can be asserted independently of the authority of the person =
asserting
it, and what is *opinion*, no matter whose opinion.>>>

. . . unless one dabbles in deconstructionist hermeneutics and all that. =
A
Google search on "Hermeneutics and the Philosophy of Science" takes you =
to
worlds where it's impossible to know that anything is true.

It's also "true" that philosophers philosophizing over the philosophy of
science drives many scientists bananas. (They're the ones that tend to
measure stuff.)

Let's try to tie this back to the black tubes we toot through:

If you go back in time to early Western philosophy, you bump into =
Plato's
musings over how anything tangible (a table was his example, I believe) =
was
not in fact a thing, but merely an imperfect replication of that thing - =
the
"real" thing (table) could exist only in the mind. (The "Platonic =
Form")

I understand the argument. I may not agree - this computer is sitting =
on
*something* after all, and it sure looks like a table - but this is =
probably
just low standards on my part :-).

. . . but taking the concept to playing the clarinet, I think it most
certainly rings true. Once of the keys to teaching someone how to play, =
I
think, is to get the correct idea in their head of how they're supposed =
to
sound. Until that happens, practice tends to be a waste of time.

The imperfection thing I relate to as well. I know how I want to sound
while playing, but never get entirely there, even on the best night. =
Does
anyone?

KJF

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