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