"Anna" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Thank you Frank, that is exactly what I was saying! but I couldn't be
>bothered to reply to siff
***anna, anna, don't be so annoyed over a trivial mental exercise which was
not intended to cause any offence! My comments were not aimed at criticising
you, but at casting a philosophical eye over some old saying that many of us
have used a little too casually.
Maybe the issue of perfection is unimportant, but the process of philosophical
analysis involved is not- it is a time-tested way of enhancing one's powers of
deductive and inductive reasoning. Then again, those who were irritated by
Socrates in doing a similar P&P sort of thing, made sure that he was condemned
to death.
Avoidance of philosophical discussion, however assinine it may seem at the
time, never makes an issue go away, nor does it advance knowledge one iota.
anna, can you not see that I was also criticising myself for also having used
the expression "Perfect practice makes perfect" without re-examining the logic
of it and even the concept of perfection ever being attainable.
I also happen to agree with Frank Underwood <[log in to unmask]> whose
response was more in the spirit of professional analysis (thank you, Frank!):
>The phrase "perfect practice makes perfect" does not imply, at least to
>me, that the performance of the motor act is perfect, merely that the
>individual is doing everything possible to attain perfect performance.
>Eventually, perfect practice will result in perfect performance, at which
>point further practice may help maintain the perfection.
However, I am sure that Frank also agrees that the ideal state of perfection
does not really exist and that the most we can do is aspire to do is reach
that individual optimal state which results in our fulfilling our maximum
potential in any given task.
Dr. Gerrit Jan Kleinrensink (Dept. of Anatomy, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands ) wrote me a very stimulating response privately on the entire
issue of perfection and if anyone else is interested in the philosophy of
perfection, both of us could post our discussions to one another to this
group, though we originally hesitated to do so because of relevance. Just let
us know.
For those who may be interested in the physiological nature of the enormously
complex task of motor 'perfection', two very high level user groups discuss
the problem:
MOTORDEV-l and NEUROMUS-L
(Their addresses should be among Heather's Hyperlinks).
Dr Mel C Siff
Littleton, Colorado, USA
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