Are the performing arts really supposed to be so radical that, as John Cage once said in the context of music, there is no noise, only sound, since he argued that any sounds we can hear can be music? (WK 2007a; D. Harwood 1976) This radical tradition in performing arts, with music as an example here, can be contrasted with an opposing view in the older days, when Greek philosophers and medieval theorists in music defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies, and vertically as harmonies. Music theory, within this realm, is studied with the presupposition that music is orderly and...
Are the performing arts really supposed to be so radical that, as John Cage once said in the context of music, there is no noise, only sound, since he...
Is semantics really so indeterminate that, as W. V. Quine (1960) once argued in Word and Object, in the example about a previously undocumented, primitive tribe, it is impossible in principle to be absolutely certain of the meaning or reference that a speaker of the primitive tribe's language attaches to an utterance? (WK 2011) This thought-provoking stand in semantics can be contrasted with an opposing view like literal translation (or metaphrase, in contrast with paraphrase), in that, as John Dryden put it, when words] appear . . . literally graceful, it were an injury to the author that...
Is semantics really so indeterminate that, as W. V. Quine (1960) once argued in Word and Object, in the example about a previously undocumented, primi...
Is history really so universalistic (even when similar events happen in different contexts) that, as George Santayana (1905) once famously wrote, t]hose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it? This more universalistic view of history can be contrasted with an opposing view which is more relativistic in orientation, as shown by the equally known remark by Winston Churchill that h]istory is written by the victor, to the extent that what is regarded as true in history today may not be so in another era when a new victor comes into power. (THEX 2011) So, which of the two views...
Is history really so universalistic (even when similar events happen in different contexts) that, as George Santayana (1905) once famously wrote, t]h...
Is the invention of accounting so useful that, as Charlie Munger once said, "you have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean"? (WOO 2013) This positive view on accounting can be contrasted with an opposing view by Paul Browne that "the recent accounting] scandals have brought a new level of attention to the accounting profession as gatekeepers and custodians of social interest." (DUM 2013)...
Is the invention of accounting so useful that, as Charlie Munger once said, "you have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life...
Is the invention of accounting so useful that, as Charlie Munger once said, "you have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean"? (WOO 2013) This positive view on accounting can be contrasted with an opposing view by Paul Browne that "the recent accounting] scandals have brought a new level of attention to the accounting profession as gatekeepers and custodians of social interest." (DUM 2013)...
Is the invention of accounting so useful that, as Charlie Munger once said, "you have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life...
