Just a note: I too had trouble with Lawrence's links. However, they (usually) display correctly when viewed as text. They never display as links when viewed as HTML. Ed Sunday, October 17, 2010, 10:11:01 AM, you wrote: > Donal, > > You end up saying "life is too short" to have to paste my url into > a browser in order to read my note. I quite agree. In my case, > life is too short to have to write two notes, one for my blog and > one for the technologically archaic system that runs Lit-Ideas. I > don't know why you can't click on my url. I just checked the copy I > received from Lit-Ideas and it has a clickable url. Consequently > here is my latest note, largely in response to the meat of your note > below, > http://www.lawrencehelm.com/2010/10/is-european-version-of-western.html > > You say you don't see anything in the previous note that would > prevent it being posted as is on Lit-Ideas; perhaps, but I wrote > many a note and tried to post it on Lit-Ideas and had it rejected. > That is major annoyance. I tried many different approaches and > ended up with the current one. I don't know why you can't click on my urls. > Are you using html? > > As to my notes not being scientific, well no, no more than history > is scientific -- or "political science" is, but we all came from > Phil-Lit which was set up by David Myers. After David Myers and > Andreas Ramos decided they had irreconcilable differences and split, > Myers founded Theorea and then disappeared. Myers founded Lit-Ideas > and after a decent interval disappeared. Through all of that I > wrote notes much as I do today. I am interested in the philosophy > of history rather than the history of philosophy. > > Lawrence > -- ><(((º>¸. ·´¯`·.¸., . .·´¯`·.. ><(((º> -------------------------------------- Edward W. Farrell // ewf@xxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------- http://www.edfarrellphotography.com -------------------------------------- Plato for Research Management http://www.zorbasoft.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html