
229: Thought Experiments
Classical Stuff You Should Know
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The Importance of Metaphor in History
In many ways, like the actual business or the actual art of history is a thought experiment because you're not actually giving every little jot and tittle that happened in history. The only way to do it realistically was would be to like completely replay AJ's life. You can't do that. So you need to go into some sort of abstraction where you're taking what you're saying. This is important. This is not important. This was formulate of formulative in AJ's thought. And this wasn't.
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