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> just that I think this isn't a piece of supporting evidence for it The context is a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887. Acton read some work of Creig
by humanrebar 10y ago
> just that I think this isn't a piece of supporting evidence for it
The context is a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887. Acton read some work of Creighton's and thought Creighton wasn't critical enough of certain popes. The context is exactly about why the bishop was too uncritical when looking back on the powerful men of history.
It wasn't a narrative of a pope and how he turned to the dark side after he started wearing white robes.
And I'm sure Acton wasn't referring to men like Ramanujan in his quote, though he may indeed have been a great man in other dimensions.
- kbenson 10y agoWe are both seeing the same evidence as pointing to a (slightly) different conclusion, and even each others interpretations of our reasoning about that original evidence is seen as supporting our own conclusions. I'm not sure how to get out of this as I suspect it will get far too off-topic before it gets on-topic, if it ever does, other than to note that I think this is generally an indication that we aren't really in disagreement, just arguing over a mistaken perception of the other's position.