Bivalves-first scholarship

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Curtis Clark wrote:
>
>  That still doesn't make it right to selectively quote someone on
> a forum to which they have not posted. Polite behavior has
> consistently had bounds somewhat short of the limits of physical
> possibility.
>

* and every quote is by definition selective - otherwise it would be a
reprint rather than a quote. As far back, at least, as Plato and the
assembly of the Hebrew scriptures, scholarship has always largely
consisted of selectively assembling quotes in such a way as to favour
the author's position on a subject.

fred.
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