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From: sarge@thirdi.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The nature of communication
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Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 02:11:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 17 02:11:56 1987
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Summary: How about a tearjerker?

In article <3997@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> myers@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Bob Myers)
writes:
>
>What statements does Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
>make? Or for that matter, what specific experiences does it try to evoke?
>(though I think an argument can be made for this (type 2), it seems
>rather weak to me. I'll let someone else make the argument.)
>
How about a tear-jerker?  It tries to evoke grief.  Or humor, that tries to
evoke amusement?  Or religious music that tries to evoke devotion or awe?

A possible weakness with this type might be that one can never be sure exactly
what experience the other person might be happening, since only the other
person can actually experience it.  But if this were really the case, we would
never be sure when we were communicating at all, so we kind of have to take
this point of faith, I think.
-- 
"Absolute knowledge means never having to change your mind."

Sarge Gerbode
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