It's an "internet" (web) source, first of all, and I didn't even bother looking for citations in the summary/description/comments (or whatever) that the link points to. I'm not actually actively researching it, after all. Also because I know from experience that "scholarship" is a "common term" that may have various modern meanings.
Oddly, some of those meanings seem to have hardly changed since the pre-"Enlightenment" time, when the guys who had the leisure and opportunity to read were all excited about actually applying then-new Aristotlean logic or something to verify their "beliefs" the orbits of the planets "must be" perfectly circular, the Sun "couldn't possibly" be blemished with sunspots, and so forth.
Generally, if a source doesn't credibly cite a primary historical source or at least some current source that I "trust" to some degree, in my mind it's just a story. The link is just such a one, wonderfully designed and laboriously constructed.
If it's a post-fifties source, and it uses Latin phrases that aren't specifically in a legal or medical context: be aware. Be very aware. "Cum grano salis" would be such a one: "with a grain of salt". Some "scholars", you see, are still kinda living in The Year of Our Lord 10000 BC... "I do go on."
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"believe"? know...
Date: 2007-10-06 09:09 pm (UTC)Oddly, some of those meanings seem to have hardly changed since the pre-"Enlightenment" time, when the guys who had the leisure and opportunity to read were all excited about actually applying then-new Aristotlean logic or something to verify their "beliefs" the orbits of the planets "must be" perfectly circular, the Sun "couldn't possibly" be blemished with sunspots, and so forth.
Generally, if a source doesn't credibly cite a primary historical source or at least some current source that I "trust" to some degree, in my mind it's just a story. The link is just such a one, wonderfully designed and laboriously constructed.
If it's a post-fifties source, and it uses Latin phrases that aren't specifically in a legal or medical context: be aware. Be very aware. "Cum grano salis" would be such a one: "with a grain of salt". Some "scholars", you see, are still kinda living in The Year of Our Lord 10000 BC... "I do go on."