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And Yet It Is Heard

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In the eighteenth century, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) wrote: “The finest research on history and on the manifold characteristics of the human mind and heart would thus be a philosophical comparison of languages; because the mind and the character of a people is impressed in each of them.” […] “…linguistic differences may lead to differences, or even to incompatibility in spiritual processes.

Exactly the same thing happens in the case of historical truth as with all the other truths: mistakes are made, to a greater or a lesser extent.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Actually items of human knowledge are not divine truths, but only ways to arrive at truths. …But men in this country are very proud of all the items of knowledge that the human world has acquired up to this moment. In these items they see truths. And although they learn that the knowledge of yesterday is confuted by that of today, all the same they firmly believe in the knowledge of today; as if no tomorrow or no day after tomorrow existed.

Joseph Roth

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Quoted in Chomsky 1969, pp. 70 and 120–121.

  2. 2.

    Ascher & Ascher 1994; Ascher & Ascher 1997. Ascher 1991.

  3. 3.

    Gerdes 1999, p. vii.

  4. 4.

    Rayleigh 1945. Lindsay 1981.

  5. 5.

    Rayleigh 1945, pp. 180–183 and 487–491. Lindsay 1945. Lindsay 1972, pp. 2, 13 and passim. Grattan-Guinness 1994. See above, Part I Chaps. 3 and 6.

  6. 6.

    Donkin 1870.

  7. 7.

    Foster 1870.

  8. 8.

    Rayleigh 1945, v. I, pp. 11 and 180–184.

  9. 9.

    Rayleigh 1945, v. II, pp. viii, 432 and passim.

  10. 10.

    See above, Part II, Sect. 12.2.

  11. 11.

    Rayleigh 1945, v. II, pp. 443–446, 462.

  12. 12.

    See above, Part II, Sect. 12.2.

  13. 13.

    Rayleigh 1945, v. II, pp. 455, 454 and passim.

  14. 14.

    Rayleigh 1945, pp. 366–367, 440–448, 473–474 and passim.

  15. 15.

    Rayleigh 1945, pp. xi and xvii.

  16. 16.

    Dhombres 2002. See above, Part II, Sect. 12.1.

  17. 17.

    Ferreira 2002. See above, Part I, Chap. 2.

  18. 18.

    See above, Part II, Sect. 9.2. Scimemi 2002, p. 62.

  19. 19.

    Knobloch 1979. Knobloch 1989. Knobloch 2002. See above, Part II, Chaps. 9 and 10.

  20. 20.

    Knobloch 2005, p. 336.

  21. 21.

    Knobloch 2002a, Knobloch 2007, Knobloch 1987.

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Tonietti, T.M. (2014). Come on, Apophis. In: And Yet It Is Heard. Science Networks. Historical Studies, vol 47. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0675-6_8

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