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  1. Feb 2023
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    ‘Mere chips from his workshop’: Gotthard Deutsch’s monumental card index of Jewish history
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    1. chrisaldrich 21 Feb 2023
      R. G. Collingwood’s critique of what hecalled ‘scissors and paste’ history – meaning both those who uncritically cited earlierworks, and the use of scissors and paste to cut apart sources on index cards
      historical method scissors and paste history R. G. Collingwood

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  3. Oct 2022
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    Frederic L. Paxson and His Approach to History
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    1. chrisaldrich 31 Oct 2022
      the writer of "scissors and paste history" ;

      One cannot excerpt their way into knowledge, simply cutting and pasting one's way through life is useless. Your notes may temporarily serve you, but unless you apply judgement and reason to them to create something new, they will remain a scrapheap for future generations who will gain no wisdom or use from your efforts.

      relate to: notes about notes being only useful to their creator

      historical method zettelkasten ars excerpendi writing advice content creation scissors and paste history

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