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Well, leaving out "of" is hardly a mega-fail. But maybe you meant that the meaning of the snippet, that experience and evidence can guide us in what to expect
by randallsquared 18y ago
Well, leaving out "of" is hardly a mega-fail.
But maybe you meant that the meaning of the snippet, that experience and evidence can guide us in what to expect for the future, is somehow profoundly wrong?
- swombat 18y agoI did indeed mean the latter. Didn't even notice the missing "of". For some things, past experience is of use. For guessing at the general trends of history, past experience should, in fact, teach us that it's completely useless. On a personal, immediate scale, it is useful to try and figure out what's about to happen, but when it comes to large trends, there are too much chaos and wild swings involved for past experience to be of any use.