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Originally Posted by Oblarg
How does this definition include both music and mathematics but exclude literary criticism (you pretty clearly create distinct "ideas" in the latter)?
If it does not - why on earth must we also advocate for literary criticism whenever we mean to advocate for STEM?
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I don't think literature isn't art, per se, but that in an academic context, the arts refers to things like music, performance art, sculpture, drawing, architecture, etc. If we are going for A meaning "everything that is an art", I think the acronym would just have one letter and cover almost all human output.
I think the fundamental difference between you and I on this issue here is that I want to advocate for STEAM, and you want to advocate for STEM. I value the arts as part of the umbrella and you don't. All of your arguments are starting from the premise that there's STEM, and we're jamming art into it, and I'm starting from the premise that STEAM is the more natural choice and that STEM forced the arts out in order to make itself more palatable to certain benefactors.
I'm going to try and cut back my posts on this thread; I don't mean to be such a force in this discussion. I just feel pretty strongly about it.