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Re:Browsable History of Philosophy by philippoi on Monday October 01, 2018 @06:35AM (#18111408)
I thought it actually undermined the philosophy as linear-progress by focusing on the links, which show a chaotic cycle of idea development. The linearity of the names seems to come from going with time on that axis, but that's just an arbitrary device for the sake of organization rather than the driver of the interpretation of the content, in my view.
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Re:Browsable History of Philosophy by cjohansson on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:52PM (#18115036)
Yes good point, the connections are really good in that sense. The time-scale is a bit misleading at least for me. I don’t know how it could be improved, maybe each segment of connected philosophers could have their own time-scales. I’m not sure time is as relevant really, some questions are timeless as well as different answers to them..
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Re:Browsable History of Philosophy by philippoi on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:35AM (#18120041)
I like that idea of using time in a way that scales better or chunks relevant sections together. There's definitely room for improvement in how time is exhibited in this interface.
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