Re: Thanks Don

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From: "James Mahaffy" <mahaffy@mtcnet.net>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 10:59 AM
Subject: Thanks Don
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> As I said before I think Nancy's book has a lot of good things to say
> and much of it is about culture looks at the world and "facts". But if
> we are going to talk about the strength and or weaknesses of the book
> lets at least have looked at the book.
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A good sentiment for an ideal world. But in the real world we only have a
finite amount of time to read books. So when we find that the author of a
book has used shoddy scholarship with regard to a statement by citing an
obviously tendentious (in this case a polite way of saying "dishonest")
source then we may legitimately wonder how much of our time should be spent
on it.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Wed Jul 27 10:06:07 2005