Is academia's fetish for primary sources just a relic from Protestant Reformation ideology?
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They make sense for historians, but why do philosophy professors care so much about primary sources? Secondary summaries are usually better
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Replying to @literalbanana @lumenphosphor
he would say "imagine learning calculus from Newton"
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Allison Strandberg Retweeted akira | LOVECRYPT
why did this happen to philosophy and not to math?https://twitter.com/0xa59a2d/status/779032059310329856 …
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math is easier to perform objectively (sans language, which is always context-/semantic-loaded (=> monkey))
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yeah in math, higher compressibility, more certainty of the meaning existing separate from the specific words
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oh rota still made us read being & time and laughed at our struggles
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