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I think he meant something along the lines of "Few were sufficiently correct that they were remembered for their discovery."
by forgotmylastone 19y ago
I think he meant something along the lines of "Few were sufficiently correct that they were remembered for their discovery."
- pg 19y agoNo, I meant that when you learn about e.g. the chemical elements, you don't also learn who discovered each of them. It's accepted knowledge; you're taught it as facts. In philosophy, most of the exam questions have someone's name in them. E.g. "explain x's concept of y."
- ced 19y agoI also had problems with the sentence, probably because it doesn't ring especially true. I can name the discoverer of most of what I know about physics, right from the names: Newtonian physics, Bohr's model, the Schrodinger equation, Euclidian geometry, Gaussian curves... E=Mc2...
- euccastro 19y agoFWIW, I too got stuck at that sentence like nowhere else in the text; it took me some tries to macro-expand. Maybe your proofreaders got past it without blinking because they are more acquainted with that point? (Although Newtonian physics and Euclidean geometry are not really counterexamples.)
- forgotmylastone 19y agoEinsteinium? (yes, I'm away Einstein didn't discover that =P)