[lit-ideas] Re: Sense and its Sums




--- On Thu, 26/2/09, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> This, only one day after once again considering in class E.
> H. Carr's notion that some things don't count as
> historical facts because they are too trivial.  I gave as an
> example, flies laying eggs in Mongolia in April of 1562. 
> Ha!  Now that we know how often Tamil males under the age of
> ten who have access to computers express irritation at not
> finding fine rhymes, we shall have to revise our notion of
> available data.  If not history.

Karl Popper: "We are taught to think that the violent contests between corrupt 
factions is what constitutes history. But this is only history from a certain 
POV. From another POV the movement of a fly on a page may be much more 
important history."

D
Making up quotes
Not re-writing thread titles
London




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