Hi Ian, > What's wrong with reductionism ? It has diminishing value. Ever more > precisely defined objects in smaller and smaller contexts, which lose > sight of the fact that the patterns and unpatterned whole are more > valuable than those well defined objects.
I think that reductionism applies to more than just objects and while it may have diminishing value it is still valuable. Especially when looking at something as fundamental as: "Is art Dynamic Quality or isn't it?" In my view such a question strikes at the heart of what Dynamic Quality is not. To reduce something to parts of something is basically an act of creating static quality and while Dynamic Quality is fundamental, static quality is still valuable. What do you think? > (Incidentally whilst I don't subscribe to Ham's essentialism, I > effectively agreed with him there in that I had already said DQ could > be seen as a term for the undefined - or the unpatterned - to answer > your specific additional question. So, no DQ, is not a pattern.) > > Can I "define" my answers ? > Yes I could, but no I can't. > An answer is what is given when you ask a question. > That's a definition, but not much use I suspect. > Why the fixation with definition ? Because everything is a definition. By my writing these words now I am defining out this post to MD. All intellectual static quality is really just one definition after another. > I'm losing the will to take your further questioning seriously, since > you obviously know the answers to your own questions - so I need to > know where you're headed with this. What's the point - where's the > value ? > > Ian Where's the value? While it may appear that I know the answers to these questions, and yes I have my own ideas about them, and even about your potential ideas; I have no real way of knowing what will come out of your mouth until you have spoken. Maybe your ideas are better than mine? This is the creative discussion that is MD. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
