"Gregory Maxwell" wrote
A side effect of NOR is that completely disinterested parties should be able to do a job of similar quality to our interested writers, although perhaps with a somewhat greater expenditure of energy.
Yeah, well, that's only true 'on paper'. It would be useful to have a name for the fallacy involved: it's 'nominalism' or 'the minus oneth law of thermodynamics' (empathy never needs to increase at all). Or something.
When I write about mathematics, I do have a reasonably full range of insights; when I write about poetry, not. Does it make a difference? Undoubtedly. I can do better dropping a bit of history and context into mathematical articles, because I have some gut feeling about it all. NOR is (under the current and basically philistine reading) supposed to stop me putting spin in when I do that. OK, but that assumes I forget NPOV, and I think I don't.
Charles
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charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Gregory Maxwell" wrote
A side effect of NOR is that completely disinterested parties should be able to do a job of similar quality to our interested writers, although perhaps with a somewhat greater expenditure of energy.
When I write about mathematics, I do have a reasonably full range of insights; when I write about poetry, not. Does it make a difference? Undoubtedly. I can do better dropping a bit of history and context into mathematical articles, because I have some gut feeling about it all. NOR is (under the current and basically philistine reading) supposed to stop me putting spin in when I do that. OK, but that assumes I forget NPOV, and I think I don't.
A person writing about poetry without an appreciation for metaphor can be brutally literal.
Ec