what does it mean for "an idea to be completed"?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

provocative claims:

i. in science it means it is moved beyond by being proved wrong
ii. in art it means it is moved beyond by being established as the unspoken "condition of possibility"* for an artform/genre/field/discipline to persist in stand-alone quasi-perpetuity

*in quotes bcz frank distrusts this phrase (and bcz i only have a very hand-wavey idea what i mean by it)

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what you mean by it either!

But I'm glad this qn has its own thread, because I also want to know how ideas are completed.