Quiz for historians

Spot the error in the argument of this post at Crooked Timber on The traditionality of modernity.

I’m trying to remember if this is one that turns up in Fischer’s Historian’s fallacies

If you don’t get it straightaway, I’ve left a comment there.

2 comments on “Quiz for historians”

  1. Another Damned Medievalist says:

    And yet, it’s a typical kind of modernist, “we’re all that and a pony” comment. I left my own set of examples. Grrrrrrr.

    16th March 2006 at 11:29 pm
  2. sepoy says:

    If only us brown folks had any traditions before C19…or history…I might give some examples :)

    17th March 2006 at 4:20 pm

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