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The tweet that TFA was reacting to specifically called out soft social science citations, where it's often someone else's "vibes" being presented as incontrover
by woooooo 2y ago
The tweet that TFA was reacting to specifically called out soft social science citations, where it's often someone else's "vibes" being presented as incontrovertible fact because it's a citation.
- 082349872349872 2y agoAha, that explains the framing of citations as support instead of as a low-tech hyperlink* for people who want to know more. (and come to think of it, it also explains why they'd even suggest an article full of hyperlinks could be a bad thing?) * bear skins and stone knives were all we had, pre-1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#:~:text=CERN%20made%20the,its%20widespread%20use%2e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#:~:text=CERN%20... EDIT: and let's not forget that the whole scientific edifice arose out of scholarly apparatus the doctors of divinity had been using in order to keep track of arguments about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin; we can let the eloi do eloi things if we're confident we can always eventually rederive morlock things from that protoculture. Exercise: how does always eventually differ from eventually always?