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Article: The symbol eaters (a chapter from the clone chronicles).
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- ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Entry in Cyberpaedia Terra Fluxus, 47th Edition. 2290. [sections]4042
The historian should remain invisible. The work should appear scholarly, objective, factual, without bias or opinion. For form's sake, this historian will endeavor to use the language of respectable academic detachment. In practice, this historian (avoiding the first person) will imbue the (eschewing personal pronouns possessive) text with opinions, inferences, conclusions, assumptions, and other bi-products of human reasoning, while feigning impartiality in the accepted manner.
But let us avoid false-to-fact treating actions as things. This historian will opine, infer, conclude, assume, ...