Re: Subject: [Harp-L] Brendan Power

[Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote:

> > Using my goofy "Ken Deifik Set Theory":
> > Brendan Power is in that small set of harmonica players who would be the
> > greatest harmonica player in the world if the other players in the set 
> did not exist.

Winslow responded, with sagacity:

> > Isn't that true of anyone who plays the harmonica, providing the "small
> > set" is made large enough? Though for some players that might mean
> > deleting all of humanity and maybe a few trained chimps and elephants.
> > I guess it's the "small" part that's significant. For Brendan the
> > "small" part is very small indeed.

That would be a serious flaw in any set that was not in the set of goofy sets.