conceptual

 This year I only made a couple of interviews in English, but these must be included among my "best of..." list for sure:  First of all, the one and only Erick Martin of Mr. Big. A great conversation, full of entertaining anecdotes, including everything you would have wanted to know about that eighties anthem "To be with you", perhaps THE hair metal power ballad: On the other end of the specter in terms of career, indie darling Mehro has been one of the most interesting characters I have had a chance to meet in thirty years behind the microphone.  I had already had the chance to talk with John Ingaramo of Human Drama, but this occasion was special, because their forthcoming concerts were also to be very special. Well made pop is always very welcome in my book. Here is Good Boy Daisy Romero's debut album is chockfull of catchy new wave power pop tunes. Very recommended.

  Haciendo el resumen del año que acaba de terminar, regresamos a las entrevistas en persona, pero también seguí entrevistando por via remota. Aquí algunas de las memorables entrevistas que tuve este año: En el v erano tuve el enorme placer de entrevistar al legendario Sergio Arau y aproveché para hacer un recorrido por su muy original y heterogénea carrera. Una de las artistas mas interesantes trabajando hoy en día en la música independiente es, sin dudas, Zahara y haber podido conocer su trayectoria, su proceso de composición y de donde salen piezas tan sorprendentes fue maravilloso. ¡Uff! Además de su fantástico trabajo con Black Pumas, A drián Quesada lleva un tiempo explorando el bolero psicodélico como solista con colaboradores estelares. De eso y mas hablamos a finales de Abril. Esta es la entrevista en la que discutimos si es posible que José José sea al mismo tiempo, desconocido, y uno de los artistas mas exitosos de todos los tiempos. Hay personajes como JAVIER CORCOBADO...

This Friday, after a long chat with Christian Romero (and some participation of Andrés Villamil), I think I got convinced that there constant-variable distinction leaves room for a third semantic option. The context is the discussion on the nature of propositional terms, but the morals apply to any referential domain. In classic bivalent propositional logic, it is customary to distinguish between propositional constants that have a fixed truth value and propositional variables that can take either. This is just the application of a general distinction between constants that have a fixed value and variables whose reference can range over the whole domain of possible values. It just happens that because the domain in classical logic has only two possible values, there is no room for a third option. However, any even slighter larger domain immediately would suggest at least a third option: referential terms that have neither a fixed semantic value, nor can take any semantic value in ...