Re: [lojban] Re: I like chocolate

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

pycyn@aol.com scripsit:

> Of course, this involves a looks-like correlation (not at all natural, for all 
> that) and the case might be harder with non-representational or differently 
> representational (e.g., cubism) conventions 

I think it's erroneous to talk of "non-representational painting", a painting
being essentially a representation, though not perhaps of anything we can see.
"Non-objective painting" might be more appropriate.  If a painting weren't
a representation, it would be what Mark Twain said Whistler's painting was:
a canvas covered with smears of tomato juice (or something to that effect).

"We must be very careful to avoid wifty thinking."
	--David Jenner

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