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A semantic pedantry argument could be made that recorded material is what separates the theorist from the practitioner. Easily countered of course by remarking
by usrusr 5y ago
A semantic pedantry argument could be made that recorded material is what separates the theorist from the practitioner. Easily countered of course by remarking that records getting lost over the course of a few millennia shouldn't make a theorist less of a theorist.
Personally, I'm fine with adding an implicit "that we know of" to every "first".
- pohl 5y agoOral traditon is a kind of lossy recording on oddly volatile media.
- usrusr 5y agoThanks for addressing the glaring hole I suspected my argument might have, PR accepted!
- kqr 5y agoAlso surprisingly robust! https://www.sapiens.org/language/oral-tradition/ https://www.sapiens.org/language/oral-tradition/ See also how many cultures have a flood myth that's of similar age but seemingly arose independently.