elegantgoat1

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on Idiom continuity · c/shitposting · -1 pts · 2y

Yeah, I think that's wrong. Since they are discrete and not a continuum. Since there are only two extremes.

If his new relationships were true it would make the opposite idioms consistent with their non-opposite counterparts. Kind of the same concept as a contrapositive proposition, i.e. 'if A then B' implies 'if not A then not B'.

Got it thanks!

And with that I personally think they got a little too carried away

You think that the artists got top carried away, as in with abstraction in general, or wanting thier work to be more open to interpretation?

Can someone elaborate on this?

which he believed was as independent of descriptive reality as was music

I'm understanding it as 'his art was as literally descriptive of his subjects as music is'. But maybe it's more about an inability to describe the artworks themselves?

Is non-determinism the only requirement for a universe to qualify as having free will?

He's not making any claims about that argument. He is saying that determinism implies no free will.

Edit: meant to reply to Chicken.