Dear Stan,
There is a beautiful study by Floris Cohen [Cohen, H. F. (1984). Quantifying
Music. Dordrecht, etc.: Reidel] in which he shows how during the 17th
century gradually the appreciation of the minor seventh changed in both
theory (Huygens) and practice (Monteverdi). While this was first considered
as a dissonant, people began to consider it as a consonant.
Levi-Strauss, of course, is the author who convincingly made this argument
for any of the other senses (La pensee sauvage). This is not to deny that
the biological mediation may also play a role.
With best wishes,
Loet
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es
> [mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Stanley N.
> Salthe (by way of Pedro Marijuan<marijuan@unizar.es>)
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 10:10 AM
> To: fis@listas.unizar.es
> Subject: Re: [FIS] Re: Concluding replies
>
> Note on SPAM: there is lots of spam these days in the server
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> it into the list. ---Pedro
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>
> >To: fis@listas.unizar.es
> >From: "Stanley N. Salthe"
<ssalthe@binghamton.edu>
> >Subject: Re: [FIS] Re: Concluding replies > >Commenting
> on Arne's posting, with which I substantially agree. I find
> it >useful to construct a specification hierarchy of 'realms
> of nature' (each >of which is a cultural construct), as:
> >{physical dynamics {material connections {biological forms
> {sociocultural >traditions}}}}
> > This allows us to put all of scientific knowledge in an orderly
> >arrangement (in the sprit of the Unity of Knowledge
> outlook). Physics >subsumes all other science discourses,
> while sociology implies (material
> >implication) all the others.
> > Since an individual's knowing resides within
> sociocultural traditions,
> >it is mediated by all of these realms of nature. There
> remains the >question of to what extent, say, the 'taste of
> an orange' is culturally >mediated. If it is not, then it
> is yet biologically mediated. Some might >think that only
> physical knowledge could be directly about the World
> >itself, but we biological beings must construct
> culturally-mediated >machines in order to detect -- indeed
> construct -- the data which we would >hold to be physical
> information.
> >
> >STAN
> >
>
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