What you describe there seems to me to be captured better by something like "remarkable achievement", since you refer both to talent and circumstances. Here, you stress the underlying (apparently) innate talent of Clapton as the main thing.
Either way, you opine that "genius" is predicated on a rare combination of events, like I have here. I therefore take it that it is its rarity which you find to be the defining feature of the phenomenon at hand. I continue to say that the rarity is inherently a feature of nature. Perhaps you can explain your position to me on another example.
Michael Jordan had a rare set of athletic talents, well suited to engaging in an activity known as the game of basketball. The circumstances were such that he was able to use these talents to make millions happy and excited. Where does God enter the picture, again?
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Date: 2009-10-17 07:26 pm (UTC)Either way, you opine that "genius" is predicated on a rare combination of events, like I have here. I therefore take it that it is its rarity which you find to be the defining feature of the phenomenon at hand. I continue to say that the rarity is inherently a feature of nature. Perhaps you can explain your position to me on another example.
Michael Jordan had a rare set of athletic talents, well suited to engaging in an activity known as the game of basketball. The circumstances were such that he was able to use these talents to make millions happy and excited. Where does God enter the picture, again?