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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:57:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Howard Hastings <hhasting-AT-osf1.gmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Plato/Marx/Nation Socialism



Woops! I wrote that last post too late at night. Some corrections:

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Howard Hastings wrote:

 And any conception of good scholarship deploys and
> works to establish a rank order of reliability, measuring how much cannot
> or cannot be reliably infered from a source based upon our knowledge of
> it.  

That should be "how much can or cannot."

And this 

One my reliably infer from the existence of Rauschning's book that he
> wrote it and not Plato.

should be rewritten as this

One may reliably infer that Plato did not write Rauschning's book,
somewhat less reliably that Rauschning himself wrote it, and much less
reliably that the Hitler who appears in that book is the sole author of
the words attributed to him.

The last word in this sentence should be "difficulty."
> 
>  Historical inquiry also seeks to measure and cope with that
> ability.

hh
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