Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each statement by whether it is a workable PROPOSITION or too vague to work from.
Groups: Workable proposition · Too vague
- An exploration of space and time
- Whether a form built to collapse can be exhibited at all
- A meditation on materials
- Something about memory
- How a cast of a room's void reads where the room still exists
Hints
- A workable proposition can fail.
- If nothing could count against it, it is not yet a proposition.
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Workable proposition: Whether a form built to collapse can be exhibited at all, How a cast of a room's void reads where the room still exists
Too vague: Something about memory, An exploration of space and time, A meditation on materials
Why
The test is whether the proposition could fail. "Something about memory" cannot be answered badly, so it gives no purchase on what to make or when to stop; the workable ones each name a specific thing that might not work, and finding out is the project.
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