RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
October 1, 2016 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2016 at 3:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 1, 2016 at 2:53 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The first question that comes to my mind is whether the Sid Vicious version of “My Way” is the same song as the one sung by Frank Sinatra.In a legal sense, in the sense of it;s composition, in the sense of any given performance as it relates to another specific performance or indeed..vis a vis any given performance of the same by any other?
Quote:There is also a question about whether a piece of sheet music or a 45 rpm vinyl recording qualify as songs and in what way.Is there that question? Who asks that question? They both have songs on them, or not.
Quote:I don’t think anyone truly believes that a quantitative analysis of physical vibrations gets very far on those types of questions. The fact is that when people talk about a song, what is it “made of” or how it is transmitted are never discussed. People talk about its structure, sense and affect. Anyone coming into the conversation and insisting that what makes a song a song is just vibrations in matter would be rightly considered a fool.I think that the production and transmission of sound are discussed more often than you seem to think. There is such a thing as a music industry, after all. What do you think sound engineers do, exactly?
No one insisted any such thing, ofc, yet more straw. You asked what music was made out of, I told you it was made out of sound. Is that foolish? Is it untrue? Is it immaterial? So what, then, is the issue for materialism here supposed to be, exactly? Materialism is a statement regarding the composition of the things we see. If you have questions regarding something -other- than thir composition, those questions would not have any relevance to the materialist position itself. The materialist position..is that music...is made of sound. Sound, to whit, being vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear.
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