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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

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