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A Conversation with David Valerio

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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I'm Not a Humanist, I'M a Natural Philosopher, or All These Things

It's more like because it's the attention to a single text that makes you a humanist, whereas if you are interested in like texts in general or languages in general, then you end up being a scientist. So I would revive it. It's a pretty cool label to put on yourself. Yeah, it's good to go back to that point when they were joined up, right? Right, exactly. There's a... In a way, but it's true though, because I mean, I think to some degree it speaks to the increasing specialization of study over time.

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