Re: Newcomb number news

Patrick Durusau <patrick-Q/[email protected]>
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Lars,

On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 11:04 +0100, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> * Patrick Durusau
> > 
> > Suggestion: Why don't we allow people to self-declare, on whatever basis
> > seems good to them, the person(s) who stimulated their interest in topic
> > maps?
> 
> That's what we've done. :-)
> 

In fact, yes, but I have read some of the posts as seeking something
more "exact," or precise. If anything, topic maps are about recording
partial answers about things that are imprecise.

> > *We can leave it to intellectual historians of the 20/21st century,
> > using topic maps, to write papers sniping at each other over the origins
> > of topic maps. ;-)
> 
> I look forward to reading them.

OK, but realize intellectual histories are usually written at a "safe"
distance of a couple of centuries. Avoids having the principals saying
things inconsistent with whatever position is being advanced. There is
the problem of diaries, discovered caches of papers, etc., but that
usually serves to divide a history into early/late and other periods. 

:)

Patrick

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