source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:23:16 -0800 Subject: Truth and Music From: James Kukula Is there some one true basis for music? Personally I think of truth as fundamentally inexpressible. Humanity's noblest effort might be the quest for truth, but that doesn't mean it's anything that can ever be found. Quite the contrary! Similar "quests for certainty" have taken place in mathematics. Is there one true basis for mathematics? Natural numbers? Set theory? Category theory? Predicate calculus? See Morris Kline's MATHEMATICS: THE LOSS OF CERTAINTY. Mathematics continues, creative and productive as ever if not more so, despite Goedel, Brouwer, et al. Jim Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:32 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06404; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:32:05 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06401 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id DAA06011; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 03:30:07 -0800 Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 03:30:07 -0800 Message-Id: <199702141128.UAA22138@inetnif.niftyserve.or.jp> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu