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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
art must be differentiated.
the idea that something is quantifiable is not all consuming,. in science only the things that are quantifiable are experimented on. anything that is not is relegated to the realms of philosophy or theology, until we come up with new technology or theory o allow us to quantify those things. (one cannot quantify the love felt by people towards a pet, nor the willpower needed to avoid chocolate sweets if one is dieting, for example)
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I would agree with you if I believed that the capacity (read: potential) to quantify had to be sound quantification by definition in order to be a capacity, but I don't. Likewise, I think there exists slippery territory for quality. It's tell-tale that we persist in attempting to quantify and qualify everything around us despite fundamental doubt.