Fiction vs History?

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Mon Oct 25 16:46:40 CDT 2004


on 26/10/04 2:02 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

> No matter how many times you
> say it you cannot reduce the cosmos to text.

That is precisely what all those positivist historians in Europe said they
were doing back in the nineteenth century ("simply to show how it really
was" was their mantra).

The cosmos is indeed a text which we read. Different people read it
differently.

best




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