Reading a major thinker more than 100 years removed from your own time is like trying to run old COBOL code on a phone. Doable in principle perhaps, but best left to intermediary experts willing to devote their lives to rebuilding the environment where it can compile.
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You misunderstand. I'm happy to read contextualized commentaries and translations and later critical interpretations.
The Lindy effect is interesting and a reasonable prediction factor on survival, but I think a bad heuristic for what to read or treat as default "true".
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Ahh - fair, thanks for the clarification and I'd tend to agree.
I suppose one tends to be a few degrees away because of time, context as well as language.
As for Lindy, without getting into Peterson v Harris "truth" definition quagmires, it seems to speak more to usefulness

