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Posted: August 06 2008 at 17:08

^ Good point on the 2nd paragraph

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Posted: August 06 2008 at 17:42

It seems that what we have here is an instance of the so called sorites paradox. If you take away just one hair from a man's head that doesn't make him bald does it? If you take another hair, that also doesn't make him bald, right? Take yet another, still not bald. It seems that the removal of no single hair makes a man bald. But obviously, if we take all his hair, the man is bald. But we just agreed that the removal of no single hair would make him bald. Paradox!

This has been discussed by philosophers for the last two thousand years or so

Read more about the sorites paradox here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sorites-paradox/

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Posted: August 06 2008 at 17:53

By courtesy of the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy:

"The sorites paradox is the name given to a class of paradoxical arguments, also known as little-by-little arguments, which arise as a result of the indeterminacy surrounding limits of application of the predicates involved. For example, the concept of [YES] appears to lack sharp boundaries and, as a consequence of the subsequent indeterminacy surrounding the extension of the predicate ‘is [YES]’, no one [band member] can be identified as making the difference between being [YES] and not being [YES]. Given then that one [band member] does not make [YES], it would seem to follow that two do not, thus three do not, and so on. In the end it would appear that no amount of [band members] can make [YES]. We are faced with paradox since from apparently true premises by seemingly uncontroversial reasoning we arrive at an apparently false conclusion."

I am a nerd, I know

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Posted: August 06 2008 at 18:24

Good to know that there is a term for it. Thank you for the information.

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Posted: August 13 2008 at 03:15

I think it will be cool if Yes exist over the years.Like something eternal.Like symbol of music.And the idea of Yes will pass from one to another like something biblical.I hope there are much more bands that want to make something like that.

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Posted: August 14 2008 at 16:19

Originally posted by poslednijat_colobar

poslednijat_colobar wrote:

I think it will be cool if Yes exist over the years.Like something eternal.Like symbol of music.And the idea of Yes will pass from one to another like something biblical.I hope there are much more bands that want to make something like that.

The music of Yes is eternal and will always exist, but why must the band continue to exist? Or rather, why must there always be some band in existance that calls itself "Yes"? We can bring the music from generation to generation without having an actual band around that calls itself "Yes" can't we? For me it is better that the music will be remembered for what it is (through recordnings mainly) rather than be furthered by some distant decendant that can only be a shadow of the past.

If the children of Ringo, John, Paul and George would form a band it would not be The Beatles! It would be a mere tribute band. This would be so even if they somehow managed to get the legal rights to the name. But my point is that the music of The Beatles will live on forever, despite the fact that they have not existed since 1970. So will Yes music!

And we should not forget that as long as some of the people who have ever been in Yes still tour they will probably continue to play Yes music live. Rick has played Yes music on his solo tours, so has Jon, Steve has done it most recently with Asia, Tony Kaye and Billy Sheerwood has played Yes music with Circa: etc. etc. - Yes music will not die just because we will not have an actual Yes around in the future.

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Posted: September 10 2008 at 16:57

SouthSideoftheSky wrote:

rushfan4 wrote:

I think that Esquire was actually Chris's wife or ex-wife. I don't think there were any kids involved, but I could be wrong too.

Oh, you are probably right. I just asumed it was his children

BTW, here are the credits for the album:

- Nikki Squire / vocals
- Nigel McLaren / bass, backing vocals
- Charles Olins / keyboards, backing vocals

Additional musicians:
- Chris Squire / backing vocals
- Alan White / drums
- Pat Thrall / guitar
- Steve Topping / guitar
- Eddie Golga / guitar
- Jamie Lane / drums
- Dinky / drums
- Carmen Squire / backing vocals

If Nikki is his wife then who is Carmen Squire?

I know Chris personally, and can tell you that Chris has three daughters and one son. The first three were a mixture of his own blood children with Nikki Squire of the UK in the 1970s and her own from a previous relationship. Carmen is one of those children, all of whom are well into their adult years by now. His son Brian is his much-younger blood son with his second wife from LA, Melissa Squire, from the late 1990s.

Chris is very much a family man, and family is very important to him and his spectacularly-amazing, beautiful, and talented current British wife Scotland Squire. He is as close to his various family members as he can possibly get, and loves them all.