X-Message-Number: 11525 From: Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:20:56 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #11520 - #11523 In a message dated 4/7/99 2:03:25 AM, writes: <<It would seem that your definition of "poetry" incorporates something about the *origin* of the text in question, i.e. it is based on something more than the text itself. While I don't have a precise definition, to me whether a piece of text is to be regarded as "poetry" or not depends on the text itself, and not how it was created or what produced it. Again, I submit that a simulated poet would write real poetry. A simulated mathematician would do real mathematics, etc. I'll try to check on Wittgenstein. Mike Perry>> Mike, I recall taking a graduate level course on linguistics where the prof was also the pres of the am soc. of linguistics, where one of the major topics of discussion was precisely what you discuss, and where if there was any eventual concensus, it was what you have come to. d Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11525