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Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him fantasticanachronism.com

Published: Jan. 17, 2020

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via epilys 1 year, 8 months ago | archived | plain text cache | source | 2 comments

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• amvc1 year, 7 months ago | link | reply | source

  Great piece. I was unaware of so many things regarding Homer's work.

  Sometimes the bottleneck to scientific progress is not data, but hypotheses.

  This is so relevant in this age.

  • epilys1 year, 7 months ago | link | reply | source

    I am reminded of a sentence in an article about Aristotle and metaphysics that said (paraphrasing) "in the centuries after Aristotle everyone was so preoccupied with understanding Aristotle, instead of the things Aristotle was trying to understand"