Remember: Just because an idea is old doesn't mean it's good.
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It’s an instant or application of an idea. So the idea is missile weapons broadly, variously atlatls or bows or rifles.
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That's just a more general idea. But more importantly, "horse archery" really refers to a whole system of warfare, emphasizing mobility, envelopment, and lack of need for supply lines. That all became unfeasible in the age of the gun.
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Ideas and applications should be disambiguated. Otherwise, at the margins, everything can be categorized as an idea. This seems baroque and not probative analytically.
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The principle I'm talking about actually applies to lots of stuff that is not an idea, so I'm not super concerned with boundary-policing the word "ideas" here.
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