One of the issues with the sentence is that “potential position” seems ill-defined. Even with a single joint you can have an infinite number of potential positions because you have an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1.
You would need to have a standard to distinguish two positions from each other to make positions countable in a meaningful sense. If you for example care about dancing you might say that two positions are the same if they have the same labanotion. A osteopath however cares about difference in articulation of a joint that are a lot more fine then what you could write down in labanotation.
‘The body has an almost infinite number of potentialpositions’
An improvement?
I was umming and ahing about how to phrase it and couldn’t decide if ‘positions’, ‘potential positions’ or ‘possible positions’ were any better than each other.
Thank you for the introduction to labanotion, I’ve not come across it before. It looks like a representation of what I’d classify as generalised positions, not specific enough in detail for my line of thought.
I think your other comment is more on the scale of difference I’m thinking about. - working towards the uncountable… incalculable… infinite...
I have realised (through asking this question and reading the answers), the underlying concept is valid but what was niggling at me was all the words (apart from body!) I’d used in the statement.
Does the body have an almost infinite number of potential has innumerable positions.
- feels better.
I’m not totally happy with ‘positions’, but I’ve also realised this is a minor addition to my main hypothesis (‘vanity side project’ is the phrase that springs to mind) and I’ve got distracted by unimportant details, … so back to work on my next posts.
Although my first three posts cover the key anatomy. All the information needed is there.
One of the issues with the sentence is that “potential position” seems ill-defined. Even with a single joint you can have an infinite number of potential positions because you have an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1.
You would need to have a standard to distinguish two positions from each other to make positions countable in a meaningful sense. If you for example care about dancing you might say that two positions are the same if they have the same labanotion. A osteopath however cares about difference in articulation of a joint that are a lot more fine then what you could write down in labanotation.
‘The body has an almost infinite number of potential positions’
An improvement?
I was umming and ahing about how to phrase it and couldn’t decide if ‘positions’, ‘potential positions’ or ‘possible positions’ were any better than each other.
Thank you for the introduction to labanotion, I’ve not come across it before. It looks like a representation of what I’d classify as generalised positions, not specific enough in detail for my line of thought.
I think your other comment is more on the scale of difference I’m thinking about. - working towards the uncountable… incalculable… infinite...
I don’t think it changes much. It still leaves the question of what counts as one position open.
Defining what the term means is likely to be very beneficial to be able to later make exact statements about positions.
Any good science operationalizes the terms it cares about.
I started a long answer but have deleted it all.
Rather than repeating, here’s my post if that clarifies anything of my thinking?
I am struggling with a lot of wording on LW.
Are you saying I need to define a position?
The concepts floating around in my brain have morphed a bit, but aren’t clear enough to express yet.
I missed that you wrote a lot on that post. I will comment on it more directly.
I would appreciate your thoughts.
I have realised (through asking this question and reading the answers), the underlying concept is valid but what was niggling at me was all the words (apart from body!) I’d used in the statement.
Does the body have an almost infinite number of potential has innumerable positions.
- feels better.
I’m not totally happy with ‘positions’, but I’ve also realised this is a minor addition to my main hypothesis (‘vanity side project’ is the phrase that springs to mind) and I’ve got distracted by unimportant details, … so back to work on my next posts.
Although my first three posts cover the key anatomy. All the information needed is there.