maia comments on Bad Concepts Repository - Less Wrong

20 Post author: moridinamael 27 June 2013 03:16AM

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Comment author: komponisto 27 June 2013 10:29:29AM *  4 points [-]

"Harmony" -- specifically the idea of root progressions -- in music theory. (EDIT: That's "music theory", not "music". The target of my criticism is a particular tradition of theorizing about music, not any body of actual music.)

This is perhaps the worst theory I know of to be currently accepted by a mainstream academic discipline. (Imagine if biologists were Lamarckians, despite Darwin.)

Comment author: maia 27 June 2013 11:19:35AM 7 points [-]

What's wrong with it?

Comment author: komponisto 27 June 2013 11:34:11AM 6 points [-]

See discussion here, which has more links.

Comment author: maia 28 June 2013 09:15:49PM -1 points [-]

Er. That's an article about the history of philosophy. Am I missing something, or was it supposed to be about music theory?

Comment author: komponisto 28 June 2013 11:38:04PM 0 points [-]

The link is to a comment.

Comment author: maia 29 June 2013 04:05:49AM 1 point [-]

Ah, ok. I was on my cellphone, so probably assumed that the instant-scroll-down-to-comment-section was a bug instead of a feature (or possibly it went to the wrong place, even).