AlpineIvyPhD

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by AlpineIvyPhD 3y ago
this works with your username a little too well...
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Before the Delete Key(blogs.getty.edu)
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by AlpineIvyPhD 3y ago
Honestly, I don't. This was just a given in literature I read and chats (about Greco-Roman antiquity, can't answer for other cultures). You may come across it in books about literacy in GR antiquity, but honestly that'd be a
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by AlpineIvyPhD 3y ago
No worries! I didn't think you were griping or anything. And your comment prompted me to say, historical biases aside being ignored in the post, I thought you were right that it was weird to attack Hypatia and Theon. And when you look
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by AlpineIvyPhD 3y ago
I also don't get the vehemence against Hypatia in the original link. It's tapping into something weird, for sure. I think the stakes are really low too. And I also think the original post is introducing modern values when it comes
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by AlpineIvyPhD 3y ago
Was replying to the link to Hypatia's legacy. You have to look at the history of sources and their bias to understand the history of ideas. Historical sources don't necessarily contain facts; and they may also convey more than fac
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by AlpineIvyPhD 3y ago
that suggests this trash is distinct from that trash. it's just all the same trash continent to me, dude.
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by AlpineIvyPhD 3y ago
tfw you cannot ever imagine using the features in a massive product rollout by a giant company and you despair for humanity instead.
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by AlpineIvyPhD 3y ago
Yup, and that's why the bias of original sources matters too. Bias gets amplified over time. Or reversed at the same intensity, I suppose. And then we end up with crazy, invisible to us bias in the modern sources. You get accustomed to
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by AlpineIvyPhD 3y ago
The one thing missing here imho is skepticism about the sources and their biases. They can be both factually wrong and also biased. I could be wrong about this, but I think the Suda is somewhat questionable, isn't it?