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Post by jonbain on Oct 22, 2019 17:47:18 GMT
Less is more (more or less)
Paradox relies on a different context of the same word, to claim a truth which appears as a contradiction.
In music a soft note surrounded by much silence often results in a greater conveyed meaning or emotion, than does a barrage of sounds, and even musicians, all competing for the center of attention.
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Post by xxxxxxxxx on Oct 22, 2019 17:50:02 GMT
Less is more (more or less) Paradox relies on a different context of the same word, to claim a truth which appears as a contradiction. In music a soft note surrounded by much silence often results in a greater conveyed meaning or emotion, than does a barrage of sounds, and even musicians, all competing for the center of attention. Less and More Are Relative to the Observer.
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Post by karl on Oct 22, 2019 18:22:39 GMT
The makers of modern movies have, for the most part, completely forgotten about this principle. The viewer is never given any time to reflect upon what he/she is watching, as every single moment in the movie is filled with some element of action or melodrama.
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Post by Elizabeth on Oct 23, 2019 6:18:18 GMT
Yes, it's true in some sense. Like I plan to throw some stuff away soon cuz it's just too much. Less is more than enough for me. Like why do you need a billion of cheeto puff bags when a bag or 2 is more than enough?
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Post by thesageofmainstreet on Oct 23, 2019 18:42:53 GMT
Less is more (more or less) Paradox relies on a different context of the same word, to claim a truth which appears as a contradiction. In music a soft note surrounded by much silence often results in a greater conveyed meaning or emotion, than does a barrage of sounds, and even musicians, all competing for the center of attention. People on the Cutting Edge—Of a ShredderAn oxymoron—for example, "boneless ribs"—is a short form of paradox. It is not at all what today's illiterate language lords mean by it, which is a claim that something is "a contradiction in terms," the opposite of oxymoron. The lazy blowhards who infest the media hear a fancy word like oxymoron, get only a vague sense of its meaning, and impetuously use it to make themselves sound educated. But to anyone who is truly educated, their usage proves how stupid they are and that they have no right to the dominant positions they hold. What's even worse is that they get practically all Americans to blindly repeat that false usage in order to feel "in the know."
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Post by jonbain on Oct 23, 2019 20:44:10 GMT
Yes, it's true in some sense. Like I plan to throw some stuff away soon cuz it's just too much. Less is more than enough for me. Like why do you need a billion of cheeto puff bags when a bag or 2 is more than enough? is a puff bag like a big cushion filled with polystyrene beads?
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Post by Elizabeth on Oct 23, 2019 21:57:02 GMT
Yes, it's true in some sense. Like I plan to throw some stuff away soon cuz it's just too much. Less is more than enough for me. Like why do you need a billion of cheeto puff bags when a bag or 2 is more than enough? is a puff bag like a big cushion filled with polystyrene beads? Nope. It's a bag of chips.
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Post by jonbain on Oct 24, 2019 21:33:55 GMT
is a puff bag like a big cushion filled with polystyrene beads? Nope. It's a bag of chips. but in this instance, more is more and more?
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Post by Elizabeth on Oct 25, 2019 5:31:36 GMT
Nope. It's a bag of chips. but in this instance, more is more and more? Not if you can only eat so much. Even though they may be yummy less of them is more. And more of them is too much. At least in my view.
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Post by jonbain on Oct 25, 2019 21:17:27 GMT
Elizabethwell if they are anything similar to my local variety, then i was somewhat correct in guessing that they are much like a bag filled with polystyrene
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Sept 22, 2022 17:26:12 GMT
Recently I read about this quote in a book of Ukrainian writer and architect Julian Chaplinsky. He mentioned this quote telling about famous American architects, and among of them the one who ran from the 3rd Reich – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the author of these words: "Less is more". He argued for architecture to be constructiona without decorations.
I think your example with music is one of a very bright one that usually can be matched with simply – dialectics. It points to those differences as something unusual. But I think that – as you rightly said above – it happens because of words, not because of things.
Personally, I've got a rough theory of that – why contrasts or something happens to us. We may think whether or not there are any contrasts outside or in reality, and so on. And maybe the simplest answer is that Kant, a German philosopher said – viewing through human categories, but with an addition that those categories can "be responsible" for any contrasts.
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Post by MAYA-EL on Sept 22, 2022 21:04:15 GMT
Less is more (more or less) Paradox relies on a different context of the same word, to claim a truth which appears as a contradiction. In music a soft note surrounded by much silence often results in a greater conveyed meaning or emotion, than does a barrage of sounds, and even musicians, all competing for the center of attention. Less and More Are Relative to the Observer. Only in their degree of measure however they still objectively maintain their original identification, which is opposite to one another
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Post by xxxxxxxxx on Sept 29, 2022 21:38:18 GMT
Less and More Are Relative to the Observer. Only in their degree of measure however they still objectively maintain their original identification, which is opposite to one another This above statement is relative to your angle of observation. That being said, just because I am arguing relativism on so many threads does not negate the truth absolutism exists.
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