billswift comments on Touching the Old - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 July 2008 09:19AM

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Comment author: billswift 20 July 2008 05:46:30PM 1 point [-]

As far as the usefulness of history, another quote (or close to it) from Liddell-Hart, " `History is universal experience' - the experience not of another but of many others under manifold conditions."