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Re:Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator by sheer_audacity on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:56AM (#30414291)
No, ideas should always be stated with the context they were produced in, including the people who made it. You can’t publish a physics paper without context (why are we checking this equation, what is the theory behind it, who are the authors behind previous papers and what have they said), let alone a boring online news article. Ideas do not create themselves spontaneously, they need a mind behind them. Don’t be tedious!
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Re:Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator by spacebanana7 on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:30AM (#30414546)
I believe in Pythagoras' Theorem despite the considerable uncertainty about the context in which that idea was produced
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Re:Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator by sheer_audacity on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:37AM (#30414616)
Sure, but why do you have to know it? Who taught you it? Why is it important? Do you just absorb things without context?
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