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Would you assume some particular method of transfer was in play if someone said “the idea propagated out from the capital city”? To me it could be any number of
by j4yav 5y ago
Would you assume some particular method of transfer was in play if someone said “the idea propagated out from the capital city”? To me it could be any number of ways, but in the end it spread out. It sounds like some people take this usage to mean the only possibility is that people from the capital city must have been going out and evangelizing it actively, not that people were visiting the capital and hearing it or something.
- mkishi 5y agoI was actually careful not to equate "active" with "directly reaching out to people," but taking any active means of furthering the spread of the idea. And, yes, I'd personally consider word-of-mouth to be largely push-based. But I concede it could just as well be people asking (perhaps too many) questions.
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- Nition 5y ago> It sounds like some people... I'd be that person. "Propagate" strongly implies a push model to me; parent-to-child reproduction like an organism.
- Talanes 5y agoI've always read it as a purposeful lack of describing effect. A word used when you don't want to address the "how" question, just that the spread happened.
- j4yav 5y agoExactly, I think that’s a better way to describe it. “Propagation occurred from inside out, rather than outside in” is talking about a state changing over time, but saying nothing about how that happened.
- inopinatus 5y agoThat isn't how organisms reproduce, either.