Scientific prose vs poetry

2012-08-23 Thread Roger Clough
Scientific writing is accurate, but usually not concise, because it must be detailed. The truth is in text on paper, is objective, shareable, essentially provable. It does not and indeed should not, go beyond what is reported. I suppose one would call this context-free. An example would be a

Re: Scientific prose vs poetry

2012-08-23 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
I beg to differ: Fiction and performance is where people lie to an audience/readership for money, sometimes stumbling on something true. Sometimes even funny, movingly, true. Science is where people do the true stuff. Sometimes bullshitting people for money. Expertise and its derived authority