Building off of a discussion with @CheshireOcelot last November:https://quaslacrimas.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/the-analects-a-dialogue-with-richard/ …
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is there any particular reason why a large amount of the oral tradition around the texts was not written down? or hasn't been distilled/summarized from the commentaries?
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did stuff get lost like what happened in late antiquity of the West?
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Replying to @woundtothewest @CheshireOcelot
similar but worse (b/c the nature of the original texts was more dependent on transmission within a school, whereas Aristotle or Plato could survive independent of the commentary)
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