Re: Mathematics and Music

Posted by Robert Holmes on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Mathematics-and-Music-tp473042p475536.html

Let me see if I've followed David's argument... science doesn't need math and it doesn't need to possess any predictive power and - given the cultural/individual specificity of metaphors - reproducibility seems kinda optional. So exactly what does something need to make it science?

Robert

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Prof David West <[hidden email]> wrote:

 As a human being, and as an anthropologist, I can make predictions and
 create predictive models based on a largely non-conscious understanding
 of culture.  Such predictions are not based on mathematics (a
 mathematics of culture is pragmatically impossible at the moment).
 Predictive models do not a science make.

 davew

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