Postscript

[j4]

Thesis: The more accurately we try to describe something, the more distorted and unrecognizable it becomes.

Discuss, with reference to post-impressionism, postmodernism, and/or postcodes.

Comments

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Also, I believe that your thesis is supported, to some extent, in the physical world. Firstly, if measurement is analogous to description, then the more tightly you try to pin down a measurement on one parameter, the more you make ambiguous the measurement on a paired parameter. Secondly, the more closely you look at a thing, to describe its constituent parts, the less recognizable the whole becomes. It is a glorious chaos that provides an eternity of contemplation.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Firstly, if measurement is analogous to description, then the more tightly you try to pin down a measurement on one parameter, the more you make ambiguous the measurement on a paired parameter.

Yeah, but this feature of the physical universe doesn't really do all that much at the scale for which human senses are optimised.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Agreed, but it shows that we are talking about something fundamental. The shapes of things at one scale are reflected in all scales, like sand dunes in a desert.