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William Moss 

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De : HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] De la part de geoff carver
Envoyé : 17 novembre 2010 12:34
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My favourite Reagan line was "Ketchup is a vegetable." We always used to say Reagan was, too.
Just wondering what the Swedes would say about your take on socialism, and at the same time wondering how you could do historical archaeology while holding such an historically false belief?
I've been doing a lot of work on the history & epistemology of archaeological documentation, and some of the discipline's ties to uniformitarianism, and one of my favourite lines is something Woolley wrote something in the early 1960s about going from the "known to the unknown" in making interpretations and inferences. So my question is: if you start out with a demonstrably false premise "socialism fails, etc." (i.e. what is "known"), then how can your inferences or interpretations about the past (the "unknown") have any validity?

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"SOCIALISM FAILS WHEN IT RUNS OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY"
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under" - Ronald Reagan