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0 Excerpt from Foreword by Brian McGuinness: 0 Excerpt from Foreword by Brian McGuinness:
1 […] In his interesting discussion of these and related topics, Piero Niro points out that Wittgenstein’s conservatism as regards music sits ill with his ideas about creative freedom as regards language-rules.  His thought (but not his taste) corresponds with the doctrines and practice of Schönberg. 1 […] In his interesting discussion of these and related topics, Piero Niro points out that Wittgenstein’s conservatism as regards music sits ill with his ideas about creative freedom as regards language-rules.  His thought (but not his taste) corresponds with the doctrines and practice of Schönberg.
2 […] To my own mind the most important lesson to be learnt from Piero Niro’s book is the success with which (as he shows) Wittgenstein establishes within each area, each world as I have hinted above, a discourse appropriate to it, which guarantees its own sense and nonsense (or the equivalent). There is no single rule, no model in mathematics or natural science, that has to be followed.  Above all no theory.  But that there is none is not a theory either it has to be seen from case to case. 2 […] To my own mind the most important lesson to be learnt from Piero Niro’s book is the success with which (as he shows) Wittgenstein establishes within each area, each world as I have hinted above, a discourse appropriate to it, which guarantees its own sense and nonsense (or the equivalent). There is no single rule, no model in mathematics or natural science, that has to be followed.  Above all no theory.  But that there is none is not a theory either – it has to be seen from case to case.