[ih] "The First Router" on Jeopardy

Scott Brim scott.brim at gmail.com
Fri Nov 26 09:34:34 PST 2021


I'm just going to toss something in here from 1651. The second half is
particularly relevant. There is nothing new under the sun etc.

     By this it appears how necessary it is for any man that aspires
     to true knowledge, to examine the definitions of former authors;
     and either to correct them, where they are negligently set down,
     or to make them himself.  For the errors of definitions multiply
     themselves according as the reckoning proceeds, and lead men into
     absurdities, which at least they see, but cannot avoid, without
     reckoning anew from the beginning.

    -- Hobbes, Leviathan



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