Jennifer Rohn at Mind the Gap has a post that using a modern example illustrates the raison d’être for a large number of the things that I write about and post here. The little guys also matter.
H/t to the Albino Aussie AnthropoidTM
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If your philosophy of [scientific] history claims that the sequence should have been A→B→C, and it is C→A→B, then your philosophy of history is wrong. You have to take the data of history seriously.
John S. Wilkins 30th August 2009
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