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Date:
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:27:47 +0200
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Henk van Tuijl <[log in to unmask]>
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Donald Satz wrote:

>However, it's still the case that if out of an audience of 100 persons,
>only one does not find a performance "poetic", nobody can prove that
>person wrong.  It's art, not mathematics.

Nor could one prove that person wrong if he believed that 2=3 - unless he
accepted the coventions.  The same goes for art.

Regards, Henk

 [This is simply untrue, as anyone familiar with math and logic knows.
 Nothing in math has to be accepted on faith, whereas everything in art
 must be.  It's what differentiates science from art.  -Dave]

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