I just thought about how JD's mock apology about not being "at 440", in addition to being simply true, might also be a joke about the song's title - 438 being nearly, but not quite, 440.
Thoughts?
I am very interested in, both, the thinking of John Cage and the thinking of Immanuel Kant, and am, therefore, thinking about how the two may be integrated with one another.
I have a layman's knowledge of both, and, therefore, an undoubtedly flawed understanding, and so I come to you with this query - which may be nonsensical: could "the musical" be a transcendental category of quality, in Kant, and could it be so in a way that that coheres with Cage's view on the epistemic character of music?
I am, of course, referring to Kant's table of categories in the *Critique of Pure Reason*, alongside which he, if I recall correctly, emphasizes that this initial table is just a sketch of the basic categories for cognizing experience, and is by no means exhaustive, and, it seems to me, that the "the musical" could be one of them - but it may be that I am misunderstanding him in crucial ways.
Thanks!