[Dixielandjazz] Re: reality/truth cum genius/jazz

[Chuck Kercher]

Hey Charlie, You did a bunch of good work when you were younger to set your
self up as one to give good advice now that you are a little older. chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Hooks" <charliehooks@earthlink.net>
To: "Don Ingle" <dingle@baldwin-net.com>; "Bill Gunter"
<jazzboard@hotmail.com>; <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: reality/truth cum genius/jazz


> on 8/1/02 7:21 AM, Don Ingle at dingle@baldwin-net.com wrote:
>
> > The idea of music not being
> >> physical is like saying a beautiful rainbow and or sunset is not
physical
>
>     No.  The "Idea" of music not being physical is like the "Idea" of
beauty
> connected with the sunset or with anything else.  You are not following me
> here, people!  Of course the physical material motions by which music is
> conveyed are all physical, like the vibrating waves of color in a sunset.
> That was not the question.
>
>     Notice this curiousity: we have so far abandoned the Universals that
the
> "Idea" of a thing is now confused with the nominal manifestation of the
> thing in physical terms.  In other words, use the term "Idea" in the sense
> I'm using it, and people don't know what the hell I'm talking about.  This
> has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with the last few
> hundred years of Nominalism.  Realism (in the mediaeval sense) has so far
> fallen from fashion as to be unintelligible.
>
>     Charlie (with all the good advice, which La Rouchefoucualt said was
what
> a man gives when he's too old to set a bad example) Hooks
>
>
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