In a message dated 7/22/02 8:02:52 PM GMT Daylight Time, enoonan@kent.edu
writes:
> I am not aware of any department that encourages plagiarism at
> least not over here in the shithole. I have just
> as much respect for poetry as for the sciences.
> But I do think I know what you mean. In psychology they
> talk about the difference between crystalized and fluid intelligence.
> There is also a trend in fields like sciences the best work is done
> early in the career and in fields like history the best work
> is done later in the career.
> The fluid intelligence is perhaps related to frontal lobe which is
> the last to develop and the first to go.
>
> erin
>
> >
> >> Squonk,
> >>
> >> This is excellent essay material, or a novella parody
> >> - a la Pirsig.
> >>
> >> André
> >>
> >
> >That's a good observation.
> >Take a peak at the rhetoric of people who contribute to this forum and see
> if
> >you notice anything?
> >You may notice one or two here aping a certain style to the point of
> >plagiarism?
> >The funny thing is, plagiarism is encouraged in literary courses, frowned
> >upon in philosophy courses and deemed outright scandalous in science.
> >The science tutors' response is social admonition, the philosophy tutors'
> >response is a fail grade, and the literary tutors response is a jolly well
> >done.
> >
> >I am guilty as charged.
> >Squonk.
>
Hi there,
All artists will tell you that in order to learn how to do art you first copy
that which you like. This is considered juvenilia, and then you develop your
own style.
If one listens to all the early western classical music composers you can
here the influences? Its only after the second or third symphony for example
that the new voice emerges.
You can't do that in science.
You can recreate famous experiments and stuff, you can demonstrate
acceleration due to gravity with a pendulum, etc. but if you claim as your
own someone else's work it the kiss of death.
This may because sciences deal with truth as an absolute and art deals with
the good?
Anyway, it is US culture i find distasteful and not its intellectual
patterns.
Creationism is more a cultural entity than science?
Squonk.
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