Is academia's fetish for primary sources just a relic from Protestant Reformation ideology?
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I strongly prefer consuming technical ideas in the context in which they were discovered
it lends lots of signals toward "what was actually hard about this idea?" That get whitewashed out of e.g textbooks
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will go along confused by a textbook explanation because it doesn't provide discussion of the philosophical hurdles involved
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then read the original paper, or the notes, or arguments or discourse, and have my confusion validated and explained
End of conversation
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