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Taka Posted 20 years ago
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According to one scientific study, music raises the learning capacity in so-called "hard" subjects as mathematics and physics in addition to language acquisition, and this should help restore a more balanced curriculum.

About 'hard' here, what does it mean? Simply 'difficult'? Or something else, like that in 'a hard SF novel'?
  

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yes hard subjects= difficult subjects

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  • yes hard subjects= difficult subjects
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yes
hard subjects=difficult subjects
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I think it's 'difficult' to say, cause math and physics might also be considered 'hard' in this sense:

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DavkettI think it's 'difficult' to say, cause math and physics might also be considered 'hard' in this sense:

7 a (1) : FIRM, DEFINITE : not speculative or conjectural : FACTUAL<
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Yes, I think, otherwise, we have to believe that the subjects of math and physics are intrinsically difficult. But for some people learning music would be more difficult. So 'difficulty' is a subjective thing.

On the other hand, the more accomplished mathemeticians and physicists might claim that their subject is as 'soft' as 'the creative arts,' that math and physics are as speculati
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DavkettYes, I think, otherwise, we have to believe that the subjects of math and physics are intrinsically difficult. But for some people learning music would be more difficult. So 'difficulty' is a subjective thing.

On the other hand, the more accomplished mathemeticians and physicists might claim that their subject is as 'soft' as 'the creative arts,' that
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No, Taka, it's just my reservation about hard (as in 'inflexible', 'unmalleable', 'hard-nosed') categories.
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DavkettNo, Taka, it's just my reservation about hard (as in 'inflexible', 'unmalleable', 'hard-nosed') categories.

Well, at least it seems that you don't think it's a matter of difficulty here, right?
'Unmalleable' may be close to 'fact-based', which doesn't seem to be far from 'factual', in my opinion.

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I believe my position is that it is 'difficult' to say. Sorry, for being elusive.
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Davkett it is 'difficult' to say.

And that's why I asked the question here, you know...
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I'm kind of surprised, Taka, that you didn't ask the question about what 'this' refers to in the quoted sentence at the top of the thread.
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